Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> Luis M. Ibarra <mib### [at] janoestadisticaunammx> wrote:
> : global-set-key command. Now for the key how we say "alt-x"?
> : well we say it as M-x. As explained in the tutorial ALT key is the same
> : as META key
> 
>   Nope. At least in this SparcStation the alt-key and the meta-key are two
> different keys (the alt-key reads "alt" and the meta-key has a black
> square on it) and they are distinguished even by emacs. If I set the
> command for M-x it will not work with alt-x.

I have a machine where the Windows key is the Meta key.  If I alt-x, it
just beeps at me.  I'm not sure whether the same is true of other
Windows keyboards (seems you can't get anything else for Intel machines
any more).

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Mark Gordon
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