On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:29:40AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> "R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote:
> | > Yes, the two second learning curve can be pretty hard.
> | > (what is nicest "Ctrl-x Ctrl-f" or "C-x C-f"?)
> |
> | I'm rather addressing "Why is it "M", when all keyboards
> | I've seen in my entire life say "Alt"?
>
> Why 'M'? That is an emacs (or UNIX) artifact. Unix keyboards usually
> have both Meta and Alt keys and on PC keyboards meta is often done
> through alt. I think it would be wrong for us to change this, if only
> for historical reasons.
More than historical reasons, Lars. Sun, for instance, still ships
keyboards with both "Meta" and "Alt" keys.
Folks, I'd like to remind y'all that LyX is still fundamentally a
*Unix* program, not a Winblows program. All Unix programs,
specifically those using X-Windows, all refer to a *Meta* key, not an
"Alt" key.
As long as other Unix/XWin software makes reference to a "Meta" key,
we *MUST* do the same.
--
John Weiss
"Not through coersion. Not by force. But by compassion. By
affection. And, a small fish." -His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
