<p dir="auto">When a key binding on Windows matches a menu shortcut, such as the file menu's "Alt-f", the menu drops down and the bound command runs after the menu is dismissed.</p>
<p dir="auto">This makes it impossible to map keys like Alt-f, Alt-n, etc. which are common readline, bash, emacs, keys.</p>
<p dir="auto">This is critical for people that use more than one platform and want to use a single set of key bindings <em>by key location</em>.  For example a Mac Cmd key is in the same physical location as a Windows Alt key.  To make a set of Windows bindings that mimic Mac Cmd bindings one would use Alt.  I would dearly like to switch to Atom on my Windows laptop and VMs but I really want to use the same set of key bindings.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm on Windows 7, Atom version 0.113.0.</p>
<p dir="auto">When I use Alt+Shift+S, I get two menu - both the Alt+S menu and the Alt+Shift+S menu. Alt seems to underline the menu options that can be selected next (F for File, E for Edit, etc.) but that underlining, and the ability to select a menu option, should go away if the next pressed key is not one of the menu options. Other windows apps like MS Word work this way. Below is the screen shot of the result of press Alt+Shift+S - I get both the menu dropdown for Selection and the Snippet window.<br>
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