From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode? Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0ded5ecd-f5f6-4a8e-9d19-f61bf0401022@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <86hcad9ar4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <0bb45e96-f9f3-4451-a457-004bb5930c76@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87od4l5x2m.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217040129 22110 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2008 02:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:42:09 +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 04:42:58 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 1KMZkH-0001SP-AS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:42:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMZjN-0000Wc-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:42:01 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1217037843 25916 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2008 02:04:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160598 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:55945 Archived-At: Xah writes: =C2=ABThe 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.=C2=BB On Jul 25, 5:05 pm, Florian Beck wrote: =C2=ABActually, Meta is the name X11 gives to one of the modifier keys. Others are control, alt, super and hyper.=C2=BB I am sure Lisp Machine's keyboards predate X11. One way to start research on this is to look at Wikipedia. Unless, you actually have knowledge in the history of the subject. In that case, sorry. Please give us more detail, i'm interested to know about the origin of the Meta personally. Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84