On 08 May 2001 20:42:30 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> The ampersand & is for the Microsoft Windows menus
> eg &File puts a line under the F of file.  
> 
> Dont know about GTK tho'

GTK+ uses an '_' to act as an accelerator. The AbiWord design guys made
the decision to use the '&' character (which is the standard on windows)
in all of our menus/other accelerators about 3 years ago.

The result is that GTK+ and other GUI toolkits map the & -> _ and it's
that easy.

Dom


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