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shortcut

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:36 $

shortcut — A key combination for an action that is also accessible through a menu

Synopsis

Content Model

shortcut ::=
((keycap|keycombo|keysym|mousebutton)+)

Attributes

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

otheractionCDATANone
moreinfo
Enumeration:
none
refentry
"none"
action
Enumeration:
click
double-click
other
press
seq
simul
None

Description

A Shortcut contains the key combination that is a shortcut for a MenuChoice. Users that are familiar with the shortcuts can access the functionality of the corresponding menu choice, without navigating through the menu structure to find the right menu item.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline. The MoreInfo attribute can help generate a link or query to retrieve additional information.

Parents

These elements contain shortcut: menuchoice.

Children

The following elements occur in shortcut: keycap, keycombo, keysym, mousebutton.

Attributes

action

Action identifies the nature of the action taken. If Shortcut contains more than one action element, Simul is default value for Action, otherwise there is no default.

If Other is specified, OtherAction should be used to identify the nature of the action.

moreinfo

If MoreInfo is set to RefEntry, it implies that a RefEntry exists which further describes the Shortcut.

otheraction

OtherAction should be used when Action is set to Other. It identifes the nature of the action in some application-specific way.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<para>
You can exit from GNU Emacs with 
<menuchoice>
  <shortcut>
    <keycombo><keysym>C-x</keysym><keysym>C-c</keysym></keycombo>
  </shortcut>
  <guimenu>Files</guimenu>
  <guimenuitem>Exit Emacs</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
</para>

You can exit from GNU Emacs with Files->Exit Emacs (C-x-C-c).

For additional examples, see also menuchoice.

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