From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:10 +0000 Message-ID: <4797DC12.6070401@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201134637 16560 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2008 00:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 01:30:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHpzb-0005kH-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:30:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHpzB-0006q4-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHpz7-0006nr-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHpz5-0006l1-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHpz5-0006kt-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHpz5-0000yY-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:23 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 25484904/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CANdql0dTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIriY X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 24 Jan 2008 00:30:22 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:87414 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> 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 understood "char number 1" to mean \001 (C-q C-a), not the digit 1. But I think that is too obscure, it would be better to explicitly define the access key, as in (define-key ... '(menu-item ... :access-key ?a)).