From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does 'run' do in cperl-mode?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:41:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-118D5D.17412223082008@newsgroups.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15565.1217360044.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.15565.1217360044.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> You have your history wrong: Meta came from old Sun keyboards, where
> it was marked with a diamond.
Nope, you have it wrong. Meta came from the SAIL keyboard at Stanford
AI Lab, developed in 1971. This was more than a decade before Sun was
founded. Of course, the Sun founders came from Stanford, so they were
undoubtedly familiar with this keyboard, and the diamond key was
presumably put there to serve the same function. Similarly with Apple's
command key.
http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/sailaway.htm
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/1-6-RAIL-keyb
d.jpg
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2008-07-24 17:36 What does 'run' do in cperl-mode? formido
2008-07-25 3:02 ` formido
2008-07-25 14:55 ` Xah
2008-07-25 16:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-25 21:55 ` Xah
2008-07-26 0:05 ` Florian Beck
2008-07-26 2:04 ` Xah
2008-07-26 0:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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2008-07-26 1:41 ` Xah
2008-07-28 11:42 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-07-28 11:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-07-28 13:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-28 15:02 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-28 16:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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2008-07-28 17:42 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-28 22:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-28 19:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-28 20:28 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-28 21:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-28 22:09 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-29 14:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-29 23:20 ` Xah
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2008-07-28 15:22 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-28 22:14 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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2008-07-28 22:54 ` Xah Lee
2008-07-29 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-07-29 7:25 ` Xah
2008-07-29 7:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2008-07-29 8:41 ` Xah
2008-07-29 12:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-29 13:34 ` William Case
2008-07-29 9:39 ` Phil Carmody
2008-07-29 12:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-29 18:19 ` Colin S. Miller
2008-07-30 12:29 ` David Hansen
2008-07-30 13:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-29 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-29 22:25 ` Andreas Eder
2008-07-29 23:35 ` Xah
2008-07-30 8:47 ` Andreas Eder
2008-07-30 9:49 ` Xah
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2008-07-29 19:45 ` Joost Diepenmaat
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2008-07-30 18:37 ` Xah
2008-08-23 21:22 ` David Combs
2008-08-23 21:41 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-08-24 0:15 ` origin of the Meta key Xah
2008-08-24 3:38 ` Barry Margolin
2008-08-26 12:19 ` Allan Gottlieb
2008-07-29 11:13 ` What does 'run' do in cperl-mode? Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-07-29 11:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2008-07-29 12:05 ` Xah
2008-07-29 21:55 ` David Kastrup
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2008-07-29 12:44 ` Xah
2008-07-29 15:16 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-07-29 18:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2008-07-29 21:32 ` Xah
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2008-07-29 23:29 ` Xah
2008-07-31 19:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-01 3:34 ` Xah
2008-08-01 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-08-01 8:00 ` Xah
2008-08-01 8:12 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-01 15:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-06 22:42 ` Harry Putnam
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2008-08-06 23:22 ` Xah
2008-08-07 6:39 ` David Kastrup
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2008-07-29 22:50 ` Xah
2008-07-30 15:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2008-07-30 17:32 ` Xah
2008-07-30 17:45 ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-30 18:33 ` Xah
2008-07-30 19:40 ` Bastien
2008-07-30 0:28 ` namekuseijin
2008-07-27 3:05 ` formido
2008-07-27 11:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-27 11:56 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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