alt property of a context menu item contributed by an extension has no effect

[gjsjohnmurray]

Issue Type: Bug

Based on c0caab4 and #85218 (comment) I expected to be able to add an alt property to entries that my extension's package.json contributes to the editor/context menu

        "menus": {
            "editor/context": [
                {
                    "command": "thefoldingstuff.fold",
                    "alt": "thefoldingstuff.foldRecursively",
                    "title": "Fold",
                    "group": "thefoldingstuff"
                },
                {
                    "command": "thefoldingstuff.unfold",
                    "alt": "thefoldingstuff.unfoldRecursively",
                    "title": "Unfold",
                    "group": "thefoldingstuff"
                },

But when I run my extension the command invoked from my entries in the context menu is always the one specified in the command property, even if I hold down the Alt key when picking the option.

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.41.0-insider (87c2e0b, 2019-12-06T21:36:11.793Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363

[sbatten]

The alt key is not something that can be pressed with Windows native context menus.

macOS: allows option + click in context menu
windows: allows alt + click in context menu with custom (not native)
linux: allows alt + click in context menu

So, yes, we could theoretically support this, but since it is a foreign concept to native windows, I'm not super sure we should.

/cc @bpasero

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