From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: origin of the Meta key Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:19:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0ded5ecd-f5f6-4a8e-9d19-f61bf0401022@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <86hcad9ar4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <0bb45e96-f9f3-4451-a457-004bb5930c76@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <927b0c4a-3de2-4be5-b86a-7ffacc4d718e@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <88821130-f989-49ac-b8b1-e3cb2f5c5271@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <880cfe65-c525-46f7-a2e7-f76aa1168015@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <6dbf5b52-af69-4517-ae82-6dbed45492b5@s20g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219753197 9689 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2008 12:19:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:19:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 26 14:20:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXxV3-0003zB-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXxU5-0000YN-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXxTl-0000YC-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXxTj-0000Xr-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33877 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXxTj-0000Xo-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.80.33]:34925) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXxTj-0006xZ-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d291.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.210.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7QCGrkd006910 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:16:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 875EB19D931; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:19:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Barry Margolin's message of "Sat\, 23 Aug 2008 23\:38\:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56998 Archived-At: At Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:38:33 -0400 Barry Margolin wrote: > I wasn't able to find much more, either. Googling for "sail keyboard" > mostly finds articles about bands whose song titles contain the word > "sail". Google needs a way for you to tell it the general topic area, > so when you're looking for computer stuff you don't get rock & roll > answers. I tried "sail keyboard mit" and found http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/sailaway.htm This contains "This display system also included an advanced keyboard that introduced the "Meta" key and other features to facilitate touch-typing. That keyboard design was picked up promptly by MIT and Carnegie-Mellon University and later by Apple, whose Command key is a direct descendent of the Meta key on the SAIL keyboard." allan (Barry, sorry for previously sending directly to you)