How do I get to the menu in Emacs in console mode?

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.

Solution 1:

M-x menu-bar-open, which is usually bound to F10. This works with and without menu-bar-mode (which just shows the names of the menus at the top of the screen).

Solution 2:

On my computer (with openSUSE), it is not F10 but M-` which allows to access menu items. More information is available here:

http://linux.about.com/od/emacs_doc/a/emacsdoc317.htm