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Re: 1.3a1
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Re: 1.3a1

  • Subject: Re: 1.3a1
  • From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:41:10 +0100 (CET)
+ Daniel Seagraves <email@hidden>:

> 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.

But of course, we who were used to Sun keyboards and then moved to
unix (FreeBSD in my case) on PC hardware chose the left windows key as
Meta.  At least I did, and I never felt the need to change it.

- Harald
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