Do any of the Devs/Docs folks know if the context-menu and mnemonics are 
documented somewhere that David and I aren’t finding?

If not, is there any objection to filing a documentation bug for tracking?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 17, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> The underlines you are referring to are called mnemonics. They are not 
> visible by default. Once you press the activator key (`Alt` on Windows/Linux 
> `Command` on Mac) you will see them. On Mac, I noticed the menu does not 
> redraw while being displayed, so I had to click elsewhere to close the menu 
> and then right-click again, and the underlines were then visible.
> 
> This is a shame because it makes them less discoverable.
> 
> Note, I don’t see any mnemonics in the main menus, probably because most of 
> those entries have their own accelerators. (which are faster to use than 
> opening a menu and then using a mnemonic)
> 
> Here is some more info: 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3#Restoring_Visible_Mnenomics
> 
> I just did a search of the Help file and I do not see any documentation on 
> the context menu or any mnemonics.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Jun 17, 2019, at 9:27 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I thought there was already a keyboard shortcut for that.  In Windows
>> release 2.6.19, the letter *J* is underlined in the word *J*ump in the
>> *A*ctions
>> menu, which is supposed to indicate a keyboard shortcut.  However, when I
>> tried it today, I couldn't make it work.  If it is broken, a bug report
>> should be filed.  I could not find the proper list of shortcuts in the
>> documentaation to see if it is documented.
>> 
>> Curiously, in GnuCash 2.6.19 in Ubuntu 18.04, there are no underlines in
>> the menus at all.
>> 
>> David Carlson
>> 
> 


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