Re: 1.3a1
Re: 1.3a1
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1
- From: Daniel Seagraves <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:07:40 -0600
On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Andrew J. Hesford wrote:
I think old Sun keyboards have an Alt key. Meta and Alt are
distinct. The old Sun layout had Caps Lock, Meta and Alt to the left
of the spacebar; and something like AltGr, Meta and Control to the
right. The left Control is to the left of "A", where it belongs.
I still have an old Sun keyboard (And an old Sun that was in use until
last week when it's RAM went bad. I need to get another...) and this
is how it works. Originally Alt was ALTERNATE glyph, META was for
commands, and CONTROL was for terminal control characters. From an
ASCII point of view, control created codes below the alphabet when
combined with the alphabet, and alt produced codes above the alphabet.
The PC did not have a meta key, so to get the functionality of the
meta key, they used alt instead. That's where the confusion started. I
wish the PC had shipped with a meta key, that would have avoided this
whole thing. (Personally I prefer buckybits to mouse pointing. I type
much faster than I aim. Other people don't want to have to remember
that meta-cokebottle-X will summon an execute prompt, but I'd type
that much faster than mousing to the dock or apple-tab to X11 and
apple-N, etc.)
Also for what it's worth, I have software that still uses SUPER and
HYPER keys, but that's not very common. ^_^
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