From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Beck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode? Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:05:37 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: <87od4l5x2m.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> References: <0ded5ecd-f5f6-4a8e-9d19-f61bf0401022@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <86hcad9ar4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <0bb45e96-f9f3-4451-a457-004bb5930c76@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217032861 8030 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2008 00:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 26 02:41:49 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 1KMXqn-0002mw-Tj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43505 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMXpu-0007BY-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1217032539 02 2551 LYBwO9DONV4ESRmf 080726 00:35:39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: VOHUX8ZUreR7K7WId+6ZDteF1A2T1Toi2ZwQQKeYsdHMK91vgsrqUj User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BySBDRmiEViETWUjrzDRXY/1Z9A= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160595 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:55942 Archived-At: Xah writes: > • The Meta name isn't in some linguistic sense superior that covers > different modifier keys on different OSes. It was one of the modifier > key on obsolete keyboards used by lisp machines in the 1980s. Actually, Meta is the name X11 gives to one of the modifier keys. Others are control, alt, super and hyper. The problem with your suggestion is that while on some keyboards the key that has ALT written on it is the one meant in Emacs by Meta, calling Meta Alt in the documentation would be endlessly confusing for people who make use of X for their keybindings. -- Florian Beck