From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:11:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [Gitk Patch 0/6]
Message-ID: <18681.53866.855255.688290@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <1223532590-8706-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg writes:

> I finally got tired of pressing Alt and some letter to activate menus in Gitk. 
> For example in "any" program you can press Alt-F to have the File menu drop 
> down and then select the underscored character to select the wanted menu.
> 
> This series makes it possible. Friends of TCL may think my solution is too
> hack-ish. It doesn't fix all of the similary problem (mostly button) but 
> that is the subject of later patches as it looks like it requires other
> means.

Have a look at what I just pushed out.  It adds infrastructure to let
us use "&" in menu items to specify an alt+letter accelerator, but in
a different way to your patches.  If you'd like to redo your patch to
add "&" to the menu items, that would be good.

Paul.