Damn it works! (favorites)

[Joso]

why read the manual? - this program works the way you'd expect it to work (even when it's not documented)

the following line in the favorites list management dialog

"&Today" C:\DRE\EDOs\Today\

pops open this directory when you invoke the menu and then hit "T" - The "T" is not underlined on the menu, but it works anyway.

The moral of the story is - try anything - it might work.

[serendipity]

why read the manual? - this program works the way you'd expect it to work (even when it's not documented)

the following line in the favorites list management dialog

"&Today" C:\DRE\EDOs\Today\

pops open this directory when you invoke the menu and then hit "T" - The "T" is not underlined on the menu, but it works anyway.

The moral of the story is - try anything - it might work.

Nice find. But this is documented in "help>Advanced topics>Portable open with" which says:

You can define an accelerator by prefixing the "&" (ampersand) character to the desired character.

Which means you can assign the "&" before any character and that character will become an accelerator. In the below script t will show today, o will show tmorrow and u will show tuesday:

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"&today"
   msg "today";

"t&omorrow"
   msg "tomorrow";

"t&uesday"
   msg "tuesday";

But nice to see that you could find this hidden trick by experimenting.

[Joso]

thanks - now I see it works with my little selection drop down menu:

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"&All"
 #250
"&Files"
 #255
"&None"
 #251
"&Some"
 #253
"&Invert"
 #252
"S&ticky"
 #413

but I can see I'm going to need that underscore thing that other windows programs do in order to remember which key was assigned as an accelerator.