PyCharm File, Edit, View, etc. Menus: Alt Accelerator Letter Assignment
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Displaying PyCharm's File menu below.
I would like to be able to customize the Alt (windows) accelerator keys on menus.
Example 1: Alt + f pops up the File menu. Then I would like to press p to select New Project... menu item.
New Project would have to change to New Project... . That is just one example and ideally I could override swap out New... to use n for New Project...

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My apologies -- I used Ctrl + u to underline text text in my browser text box and it did so, but it doesn't post with the underlines. I will modify the text above using bold in place of where I wanted the underlines in the menu view.
Example 1: Alt + f pops up the File menu. Then I would like to press p to select New Project... menu item.
New Project would have to change to New Project... . That is just one example and ideally I could override swap out New... to use n for New Project...
You can customize the menu shortcuts in Keymap settings. File | Settings | Keymap
Have you considered using Search Everywhere (double-Shift) instead? It allows invoking menu actions quite easily without remembering a shortcut for each.
Thanks, "Search Everywhere" (shift+shift) is a nice feature and seems to work well with the "Add Abbreviation" option when right-clicking menu items under Keymap settings.
However, I'm not seeing the ability to change the what is underlined in the menu text via Keymap settings. I right click the menu item within Keybmap settings and get three options:
None of these seem related to the Accelerator key which would be the underlined letter in the menu ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/437975/what-is-the-difference-between-a-keyboard-accelerator-and-a-shortcut-key ).
Is there any other place I can go in settings or even a file outside the GUI-IDE to configure what is underlined in menus?
Oh, I see what you mean now.
Unfortunately, there is no such setting to customize mnemonics.
Feel free to vote for the corresponding feature request https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-227465