From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:28:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4475B0F5.4030703@swipnet.se> References: <85fyj4bl8p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20060520.211854.71848142.wl@gnu.org> <85lkswa29b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <44701B91.60606@swipnet.se> <44715093.4020906@swipnet.se> <4472AB5F.9090305@swipnet.se> <447440A5.8080704@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148563781 25143 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2006 13:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 15:29:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFu6-0003x8-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:29:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFu6-0000jl-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFts-0000gG-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFto-0000d6-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjFto-0000d2-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:29:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.186] (helo=av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FjFyT-0000Xm-Ab; Thu, 25 May 2006 09:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id AD1A43804A; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:29:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av9-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC6737E54; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:29:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain (81-235-205-204-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.204]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED44937E43; Thu, 25 May 2006 15:29:08 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55269 Archived-At: > Toolkits in general doesn't choose accelerators, the programmers of the > applications that uses the toolkit does. However, many meny entries are > similar in a lot of applications (Open/Save/Copy/Paste/...) so we can choose > those to be similar. > > I suspect another miscommunication here. What do you mean by > "accelerators"? I thought we were talking about typing a letter _once > the menu is active_ to select a given menu item. Is that what you > mean, too? > > How do these get selected, with LessTif and GTK? As has been pointed out, the correct term is mnemonics. I mean the single letter you press to select a menu item when navigating it with the keyboard. Jan D.