Improve the gtk_accelerator_parse() docs

We need to escape the modifiers in angular brackets, or Markdown will
consider them as HTML tags.

We also should document the modifiers we're parsing.
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Emmanuele Bassi 2021-09-04 18:56:08 +01:00
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*
* Parses a string representing an accelerator.
*
* The format looks like <Control>a or <Shift><Alt>F1.
* The format looks like `<Control>a` or `<Shift><Alt>F1`.
*
* The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case, and also
* abbreviations such as <Ctl> and <Ctrl>. Key names are parsed using
* [func@Gdk.keyval_from_name]. For character keys the name is not the symbol,
* but the lowercase name, e.g. one would use <Ctrl>minus instead of
* <Ctrl>-.
* abbreviations such as `<Ctl>` and `<Ctrl>`.
*
* If the parse fails, @accelerator_key and @accelerator_mods will
* Key names are parsed using [func@Gdk.keyval_from_name]. For character keys
* the name is not the symbol, but the lowercase name, e.g. one would use
* `<Ctrl>minus` instead of `<Ctrl>-`.
*
* Modifiers are enclosed in angular brackets `<>`, and match the
* [enum@Gdk.ModifierType] mask:
*
* - `<Shift>` for `GDK_SHIFT_MASK`
* - `<Ctrl>` for `GDK_CONTROL_MASK`
* - `<Alt>` for `GDK_ALT_MASK`
* - `<Meta>` for `GDK_META_MASK`
* - `<Super>` for `GDK_SUPER_MASK`
* - `<Hyper>` for `GDK_HYPER_MASK`
*
* If the parse operation fails, @accelerator_key and @accelerator_mods will
* be set to 0 (zero).
*/
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