Dan Espen wrote: > Dominik Vogt <dominik.v...@gmx.de> 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