Cool Trick: assign accelerators

[Tripp Lilley]

I discovered a cool trick that I believe is an artifact of GTK (apologies
if this is well-known). If you drag down over top of a menu item, then hit
a keychord, that keychord will become the accelerator for the menu item.

So, for instance, I dragged down over "Account->New Account" from the main
account tree's menu, and, leaving my mouse button down, hit "Ctrl+N". Now
Ctrl+N is bound (at least for this session) to "New Account" in that
window (which is wicked helpful, since I'm creating all of the new crap
now).

I also bound it in each of my open account ledger windows, so that I can
fire up the "New Account" dialog when I'm sitting halfway through entering
a transaction and realize one of the accounts I need for the split doesn't
exist.

Cool.

Of course, I don't hold out much hope of those bindings persisting, since
the CVS tree doesn't seem to be keeping various settings persistent right
now :)

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