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.
M-x menu-bar-open, which is usually bound toF10. This works with and withoutmenu-bar-mode(which just shows the names of the menus at the top of the screen).