In article <mailman.15565.1217360044.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:25:21 -0700 (PDT)
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>> • Keyboards don't have Meta key today
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>Yes, they do, at least some of them.
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>> So i consider it more as bug report now i think about it. Why? Because
>> emacs failed to update itself when its keyboard under lisp machines
>> become obsolete.
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>You have your history wrong: Meta came from old Sun keyboards, where
>it was marked with a diamond.

THANK YOU!

Until now, I never knew what that key was.

What I use is the sun #6 keyboard -- has the control-key
in the RIGHT place, just to the left of the "a" key.

(Just like with the old asr-33!)


David