Re: FVWM: Keyboard accelerators in menus

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:45:05 -0400

Tim Phipps <tim_at_hpcpbla.bri.hp.com> writes:
> Is it possible to navigate around the menus using keyboard shortcuts?
>
> I'm moving from ctwm and this is the only thing I can't replicate. With ctwm
> once a menu is popped from the keyboard you can move to the menu items and
> select them just by typing the first letter of the item name. I have gotten
> into this and it is very fast for going down three or four levels of menu
> nesting.

Yes. An ampersand in the menu item name indicates the hot letter:

AddToMenu Window-Ops "--Window Operations--" Title
+ "&Destroy" Destroy
+ "D&elete" Delete

I think you need fvwm2, I'm not sure, but I don't think this was in
fvwm (1).

> Cheers,
> Tim Phipps.
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Received on Fri May 24 1996 - 13:26:56 BST

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