I believe it is called the Super key? What a stupid name to begin
with! And Alt is called the Meta key? Equally stupid.
[...]
What on earth were people thinking when they tried to get away from
calling it "windows key" and "alt key"
While nowadays there are only two naming schemes that are still
commonly used (IBM PC-based & Apple), a long time ago many computer
companies had their own keyboard layouts & key names. On many old
keyboards these keys were named the "meta" and "super" keys:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Space-cadet.jpg/800px-Space-cadet.jpg
{META_KEY} was, and probably still is, a term used in a number of
important Unix
based utilities like Emacs and EmacsLisp. The specific binding of
MetaKey depends on the
system, and documentation is meant to be agnostic, thus some have come
to think that
a particular key on the recently/mostly standardized laptop keyboards
and 'Microsoft
Compatible' keyboards is what MetaKey means. Nope. It just happens to be
assigned to
that particular use on those particular keyboards/systems.
Dale Amon
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