[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-993153 ] accelerator keys in menus

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Feature Requests item #993153, was opened at 2004-07-17 22:18
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Category: User interface
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Neal Horowitz (nrhorowitz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: accelerator keys in menus

Initial Comment:
Story:
A user has just downloaded the latest release of
DrJava, and so has closed his session that was using
the older version and opened the new version.  The user
wants to edit the same file that was open before, so
she types Alt-F to open the file menu, then presses the
"1" key to open the first file in the recent files list.

Many actions in the pulldown menus have other keyboard
shortcuts, so in some cases this isn't a big deal. 
However, it would still be nice to have the same
shortcut keys in the menus that many other programs
have, with the appropriate letter of the menu item
underlined presumably to show the shortcut.  There's no
reason we can't have such a shortcut for every menu
item, with the exception I suppose of recent files over
9.  I don't know how this would be implemented in
Swing, but I'd imagine they have some way of doing it.

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