How do I get to the menu in Emacs in console mode?

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warren picture warren · Oct 10, 2008 · Viewed 52.7k times · Source

If you launch emacs using the -nw flag to force a console session (rather than an X session if you have X windows running), how do you get to the menu?

There are some items held in the menus that are infrequently-enough used on my part that I don't recall the escape or control sequence to do them.

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Chris Conway picture Chris Conway · Oct 10, 2008

M-x menu-bar-open, which is usually bound to F10. This works with and without menu-bar-mode (which just shows the names of the menus at the top of the screen).

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