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Re: [dialog] Feature request: user-configurable hot keys for items


From: Michael D. Setzer II
Subject: Re: [dialog] Feature request: user-configurable hot keys for items
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 21:08:22 +1000

On 12 May 2016 at 5:10, Thomas Dickey wrote:

Date sent:      Thu, 12 May 2016 05:10:32 -0400
From:   Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
To:     Cristian Rigamonti <address@hidden>
Subject:        Re: [dialog] Feature request: user-configurable hot keys for 
items
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> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:30:41PM +0200, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
> > Hi, at the moment hot keys for list items are automatically generated taking
> > the first letter of the item tag; it would be useful if the user could
> > optionally override this and choose the hot key for each tag.
> > 
> > For example using the syntax used in PO files when translating software,
> > prepending an underscore to the desired hot key:
> > 
> >   dialog ... --radiolist "text" 10 50 10 Tag1 Item1 on T_ag2 Item2 off
> > 
> > Item1 would have "t" as a hotkey (default behaviour), Item2 would have "a"
> > (and of course "__" could be used to print a literal underscore).
> 
> ...but doing that would modify scripts that have underscores

Why not just add the tag before.
dialog --radiolist "test" 10 50 10 "A: Tag1" item1 on "B: Tag2" item2 off



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