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Here is a modest proposal to reserve a keybinding.
If this doesn't come under a bug, please forward onto the right place.

Emacs is mostly keystroke-based, but menus would be a useful adjunct
for novices, even keystroke ones.

We can't just use pop-up windows in X, for sometimes people dial up,
although this should be standard too.

   This keybinding should hold across across modes -- it must be a
   convention.  This makes GNU-Central the place to propagate it.

I suggest that C-h C-m be reserved for this use. C-h is help, and a
menu is actually a type of help, letting command names be saved in
recognition memory instead of recall memory.

Right now I also use C-c C-m in many small modes (soar-mode,
taql-mode, dismal-mode, soon s-mode), and I can count on that for my
users, but I know that outside of those modes, it would also be handy
to a menu.

I can provide a sample menu package, simple-menu.el.  It is not
necessarily the best, and there are places where I know it could use
improvement, but it serves, and provides a lower bound on
functionality.  

   Type C-c C-m, get a list of items in the mini-buffer, type their first
   letter, get another menu, or execute that command.  Type ? or SPC, and
   get a help message generated from the menu and commands.

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