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Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux (feed.itsfoss.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

This confused me, too.

Originally, I thought "meta" came from Mac land, and was the curlicue that they get instead of the windows button on many PC keyboards.

I've also often seen a quip that emacs stands for "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift" - I'm a vim user, so I never thought too hard about this, but emacs definitely refers to the Alt key as "Meta", which makes that a contradiction in terms.

I guess all the nomenclature is just made up and nothing matters...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    At least in macos the key you're thinking of is called command, not meta. The history of the key names is that originally the space cadet keyboard had 4 modifier keys, control, meta, super, and hyper. When emacs was originally written it was aimed at this keyboard with those modifers. When using a PC keyboard emacs often mapped meta to alt and nothing for super until the windows key was introduced by Microsoft which made it a natural option for super and so the hyper key is the only one that totally died off.

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