Re: Simple Tasks, new TODO category

[Jason Rumney]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > > A non-printable seems very obscure, though. I'd think using a (seldom)
> > > printable (with a way to escape it, of course) might be more friendly.
> > > Why not use underscore, as GTK does (and translate appropriately to the
> > > target platform)?
> > >       
> > XEmacs uses %_, which is even less likely to be used in a menu item 
> > name, and has the benefit of not appearing in any key binding so we 
> > wouldn't have to do any escaping of key bindings that are automatically 
> > added to the menu.
> >     
>
> Sorry to chime in once more, but I again get the impression that you are speaking about 
> giving a special interpretation to a displayable character that might appear in a menu 
> item, and that you are trying to find a character or string that is "less likely to 
> be used in a menu item name".
>   

GUI toolkits do this already. If the character(s) used are rare enough 
that it is unlikely to break existing code, and the special purpose is 
well documented, I don't see where the harm is. Fixing the problem for 
any cases that do break will be simple, and using the characters already 
used by XEmacs for 5 years will make it likely that any such problems 
have already been dealt with.