Re: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek snet fri uni-lj si>]

Paul Hepworth wrote:
> By accelerator here, I don't mean the right-justified
> Shift+RightAlt+WiggleYourNose+F92 thing.  I mean the underlined letter
> in the menu item.

These are called mnemonics. Every menu item should have them.

> Back in M$ Excel 4, they didn't provide any for the popup menus,
> requiring me to
> do {click;  move mouse;  click} until hand_is_tired
> when I could have done {click; press letter} instead (no mouse motion
> required).  With a key assigned to invoke the context menu, it would
> even be better:  {menuKey; letterKey}

Shift+F10 is standard for this. Also if you have Menu key on 
the keyboard (like on those win95 keyboards), it should do this.

Mark
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