### 3.7 Menus ¶

`ne`’s menus are extremely straightforward. The suggested way of learning their use is by trial and error, with a peek here and there at this manual when some doubts arise.

You activate menus with the `f1` key, or in case your keyboard does not have such a key, `Escape`, `Escape`-`Escape` or any key that is bound to the `Escape` command. Move around the menus pressing with the cursor keys, the `Page Up` and `Page Down` keys (which move to the first or last menu item in a menu), and the `Home` and `End` keys (which move to the first or last menus). You can also move around menus and menu items by pressing the alphabetic keys; a lower case letter will move to the first item in the current menu whose name starts with the given letter; an upper case letter will move to the first menu whose name starts with the given letter.

If you’ve activated the menus and you want to switch immediately to the command line, press the `:` key. The menus will clear and you’ll find yourself on the command line. See The Command Line.

Each menu item of `ne`’s standard menu corresponds to a single command. In explaining what each menu item allows you to do, we shall simply refer you to the section that explains the command relative to the menu item.

If you plan to change `ne`’s menu (see Changing Menus), you should take a look at the file `default.menus` that comes with `ne`’s distribution. It contains a complete menu configuration that clones the standard one.