Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > Is there any drawback with such a simple design? Could we for example
> > use char number 1? It should be very easy to implement for w32 and the
> > other case above (where char 1 is just replaced with & and the other
> > case where it is replaced with _).
> >     
>
> I haven't followed this. But I would be against having any (printable)
> character in a menu-item name be interpreted specially and not just treated
> as part of the name. It is not the case that some (printable) character
> "could not possibly be part of the title" - whatever (printable) character
> you choose, someone will want to use it in a menu item. `_' can certainly be
> useful in a name.
>   

I understood "char number 1" to mean \001 (C-q C-a), not the digit 1. 
But I think that is too obscure, it would be better to explicitly define 
the access key, as in (define-key ...  '(menu-item ... :access-key ?a)).