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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 23:47:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D90DB9C-92D8-4576-BE4A-DB3355716B85@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppuwg1xy.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>


Am 05.07.2013 um 22:57 schrieb Emanuel Berg:

> On paleo-computers, was the Escape key placed anywhere else than
> it is on today's keyboards?

No, they had no need for such a key. They had a different key to release the punch card. (And another key to read-in the card deck.)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-05 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-05 19:03 a) What ways can Meta be put in a command?... b) What's the difference between Esc-x and M-x Don Saklad
2013-07-05 19:16 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.361.1373051779.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-05 20:57   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-05 21:03     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-05 21:47     ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2013-07-06  1:47     ` Bob Proulx
2013-07-06 12:48     ` Thomas Shannon
     [not found]     ` <mailman.407.1373114918.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-06 17:47       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found]     ` <mailman.383.1373075250.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-07 18:17       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-07-08 16:03         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-09 17:34         ` Jambunathan K
     [not found]         ` <mailman.700.1373391163.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-09 19:43           ` Emanuel Berg

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