From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:35:55 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9768"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 25 12:36:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kWeKQ-0002RJ-Px for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:36:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWeKP-0001xQ-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWeJs-0001xE-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:51236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWeJq-0000yg-R1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 09PBZxQc018283 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:35:59 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09PBZvFG003569; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:35:57 GMT In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/25 06:19:23 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124703 Archived-At: > > Priority 1: Control Key 'C' > Priority 2: Alternate Key 'A' > Priority 3: Hyper Key 'H' > Priority 4: Super Key 'P' (for middle letter, instead of 's') > Priority 5: Shift Key 'S' > > This evaluation and modifications outlined is useful for users today, > whilst continuing with archaic elaboration on 1975 Lisp Keyboards has > become unproductive for new users. > You cannot change thirty years of digital and printed documentation, configuration files, websites, and so forth. Moreover the meta key is not only used by GNU Emacs, it is also used by other GNU software such as GDB or Bash (and in general all software that use the readline library). And Meta is not only (on most keyboards) Alt, it is also Escape.