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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     But a useful option might be to make it so that M-f invokes
>     forward-word where as <meta> f invokes the file menu.  (With this I
>     mean that the user presses and then releases the Meta or Alt key or
>     whatever this key to the left of the space bar is labeled.)
> 
> That could be weird, but it might be ok.

We will need a separate solution for text terminals, though: I don't 
believe Emacs knows that Meta was pressed and released there.  In fact, 
I'm not even sure Emacs always knows that on X or MS-Windows.