[Newbies] What do the (x) suffixes in menus mean?

Matthew Fulmer tapplek at gmail.com
Mon May 12 15:15:39 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:45:40PM +0000, Tim M wrote:
> Hi Guys -
>
> I'm new to Squeak (but not Smalltalk) - I've fired up Squeak images over 
> the years and been put off by the sheer noise in the user interface - but 
> then I discovered Damion's dev image and it looked a bit more approachable 
> - so I'm trying to get started.
>
> I've been trying the seaside tutorial to get going, and one thing that I 
> have noticed is that when I right click (I'm using windows) I get a menu 
> and it has items that have suffixes like "do it (d)" "pretty print (r)".
>
> What do the items in brackets mean? I thought they were some sort of 
> keyboard shortcut but I can't seem to work out how I invoke them - in 
> particular I was interested in how to quickly reformat my code when pasting 
> in examples from the tuturial?

They are keyboard shortcuts. Activate them using the Command key
on macs, or the Alt key on other machines

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