Emacs actually supports drop-down menus in text mode, with a different key shortcut: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Me... There is also a special incantation for proper mouse support in the terminal, because the default is to keep the default handling as copy/paste: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Te...