Re: Disable mnemonics in UIManager

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

> >> It's possible to disable the automatic mnemonic conversion in the
> >> UIManager/Action? Otherwise it's not possible to put text with an
> >> undersocre into the menu. I searched in the gtkmm and gtk documentation
> >> but don't found anything related to the mnemonic conversion in
> >> UIManager/Action.
> >
> > I've had the same problem with dynamically-generated menu names and
> > TreeView column titles. I think that "_" can be escaped as "__" but I
> > haven't tried it yet. It really should be documented, for instance here:
> > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/GtkAction.html
> 
> Ah, didn't thought about quoting the underscore. Just tried out and 
> quoting works fine. A note in the docu about it would be helpful for 
> others in the future I'm sure.

this is almost the most unhelpful-yet-helpful email thread i have ever
read. two people using terms like "escaping" and "quoting" back and
forth with no clear explanation of what they mean at all.