Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>> However the most easy way to do that is probably to add a character to
>> the menu title string that could not possibly be part of the title. That
>> way we could easily support w32 and, eh what window manager (is that
>> what handles menus?) used _ to mark the accelerator? (Jan D, I think it
>> was you that told about this when I asked before. GNOME?)
>>
>> Is there any drawback with such a simple design? Could we for example
>> use char number 1? It should be very easy to implement for w32 and the
>> other case above (where char 1 is just replaced with & and the other
>> case where it is replaced with _).
> 
> I haven't followed this. But I would be against having any (printable)
> character in a menu-item name be interpreted specially and not just treated
> as part of the name. It is not the case that some (printable) character
> "could not possibly be part of the title" - whatever (printable) character
> you choose, someone will want to use it in a menu item. `_' can certainly be
> useful in a name.
> 
> I don't know if that is what you meant, but if it is, please find some other
> mechanism, or at least allow for escaping the instruction character. An
> alternative might be to use an unprintable character.

You misread my suggestion. I suggested using char number 1. Perhaps 
there is some better character?