Dan Espen wrote:
> Dominik Vogt <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be
>> simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g.
>>
>> + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole
>> ^^^
>>
>> I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works with
>> moulti character key names like "f1" and possibly sequences like
>> "ctrl-shift-space". The code to allow this whoould be mostly
>> there already, so the question of syntax remains.
>>
>> One option would be to somehow extend the existing syntax to allow
>> longer key sequences, e.g.
>>
>> + FvwmConsole &(f1) ...
>>
>> (resulting in "FvwmConsole _f1_"), which might break existing
>> menus. ANother option might be to add a separate hotkey menu
>> command, e.g.
>
> Seems to me like the above is the simplest and most intuitive solution.
> I doubt we have a lot of existing menus using "(" as a short cut.
> It's not real easy to use a shifted key as a shortcut key.
What about
+ FvwmConsole §{f1} ...
Or is '§' used anywhere in the menu syntax? I think not but I am not sure.
Also the curly brackets looks more intuitively than parentheses (for me).
Thomas
