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On 23 Apr 2002, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> On the other hand, I think many new users would expect that M-f would
> open the File menu, and since he doesn't already know that M-f runs
> forward-word, he'll probably never be bothered with having to use S-M-f
> to invoke that command.

People will probably only expect accelerators to work if, e.g., the F in 
File was underlined.