Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> > In all, I've come to the personal conclusion that the
> > keyboard-controlled menus was probably a feature that
> > caused more trouble than it  was worth, as it has caused
> > a number of outstanding problems, some of which have no easy
> > fix.
> 
> My feelings exactly ;-)
> 
> > I'm suggesting that perhaps this feature is best reversed if
> > still possible. Does anyone agree (or violently disagree)?
> 
> Just go into the preferences and search for "menuKeyboardControl". Turn
> it off and it's gone.

I agree that the keyboard-controlled menu should probably be turned off by default, then. (at least for text-editing menus)

I think it should eventually be possible to come up with a fix that allows keyboard-controlled menus and still preserves text highlighting, though, even if not in time for 3.2.  I think one of Steve Swerling's changesets handled this, actually, in the sense that it always showed the current highlighted text in all panes.

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com