Hey there,
Lex Trotman wrote:
Of course there are some fairly standard sequences like escape for the Vi-ists and another one for the Sublime-ists and probably something like M-x-C bring-back-the-menu; or similar in emacs, nobody agrees on a "standard".
And my feeling is that so long as F1 for help works, people should be able to read how to bring it back, but to be blunt, it seems that crashing and then screaming on IRC is the prefered method (in my experience from another project) so I am not personally really pro making the menu disappear.
Maybe a happy medium would be something similar to the way the mouse cursor disappears after a few seconds when watching a YouTube video. You could have the menu disappear after a few seconds of inactivity, but show back up again on *any* activity, so it wouldn't matter what a user tried, because everything would bring the menu back.