accel

accel — A graphical user interface (GUI) keyboard shortcut.

Synopsis

Description

An accelerator is usually a letter used with a Meta key (such as Ctrl or Alt) to activate some element of a GUI without using the mouse to point and click at it.

Processing expectations

Formatted inline.

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This element occurs in 56 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 16 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example accel</title>
    
  4 <para os="windows">You can exit most Windows applications by selecting
    <guimenuitem><accel>Q</accel>uit</guimenuitem> or
  6 <guimenuitem>E<accel>x</accel>it</guimenuitem> from
    the <guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu> menu.
  8 </para>
    
 10 </article>

You can exit most Windows applications by selecting Quit or Exit from the File menu.

Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)