<p dir="auto">By default, alt-f is bound to <code class="notranslate">editor:move-to-end-of-word</code> and alt-h to <code class="notranslate">editor:delete-to-beginning-of-word</code>. These conflict with activating <code class="notranslate">File</code> and <code class="notranslate">Help</code> menus in Windows.</p>
<p dir="auto">Suggestions:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>Reserve alt-f and alt-h for menu bar access and change editor shortcuts.</li>
<li>Focus and activate menu bar via a single alt press so user can navigate through the menus using arrow keys (customary behavior in Windows).</li>
</ul>
<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>