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    > In a lot of cases, one could do "insert file" or choose stuff from  
    > the "search" menu even if there were only iconified or hidden frames.

    What is wrong with this?  If the Emacs menu bar is visible even if no
    frame is, why is it bad that the user can insert a file?

It would be very confusing to insert a file when yo don't
see the buffer it would be inserted in.