<p dir="auto">There a few issues with the menu bar in Atom.</p>
<p dir="auto">Even though <code class="notranslate">Alt + E</code> opens the Edit drop down menu...</p>
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<li><code class="notranslate">Alt + H</code> - does not open the Help drop down menu</li>
<li><code class="notranslate">Alt + F</code> - does not open the File drop down menu</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">Also...</p>
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<li>While a drop down menu is displayed (i.e. by pressing <code class="notranslate">Alt + E</code> or clicking to open the menu), the Left/Right arrow keys do not move to the previous/next menus.  Up/Down arrow keys move up/down within the menu, but Left/Right do not work as expected.  Generally, Left/Right can be used to expand/collapse a submenu, but when there is no submenu to the Left/Right to expand/collapse, the keys should navigate to the previous/next menu as you would find in many other applications that utilize a conventional menu bar.</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto"><strong>EDIT</strong>: Bug is present in Atom 0.194, Linux Mint 17</p>
<p dir="auto">The normal Windows <code class="notranslate">Alt+{letter}</code> menu shortcuts don't work in Atom. Holding <code class="notranslate">Alt</code> highlights the relevant letter in each menu name, but then pressing the letter doesn't open the menu. For example, <code class="notranslate">Alt+F</code> should open the File menu, but instead the Key Binding Resolver shows it invoking the following:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="editor:move-to-end-of-word    atom-text-editor    resources\app\keymaps\emacs.json"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">editor:move-to-end-of-word    atom-text-editor    resources\app\keymaps\emacs.json
</code></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">This is a vanilla install of Atom 0.141.0 in Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I haven't opted in to enabling anything Emacs related.</p>
<p dir="auto">Pressing Alt also doesn't focus the menu bar and allow it to be navigated by arrow keys like it normally does in Windows.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm reporting this per <a href="https://discuss.atom.io/t/alt-key-menu-bar-interaction-overrides-shortuts/9192/5" rel="nofollow">this suggestion</a></p>