Re: Gnus v5.6.24 is released

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

>>>>> "R" == Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

R> So yes, on a 101-key keyboard, Alt and Meta are the same thing.

No.  On a 101 key keyboard, there is no keycap with Meta on it.
However, one can tell X that the Meta key is anything you like.  I
could tell X that my Meta key is the key labeled on my keyboard
"Scroll Lock".

You can similarly tell X that Alt and Meta are separate keys, by
giving the keysyms to two different keycodes and assigning different
mods to them.  I'm not sure if dtwm and mwm bind Alt or Meta... I'll
have to check at work.

(Another nit: CDE and Motif are two different UI standards, although
I think CDE is a superset.)

In any case, M-tab may not be safe, but Emacs has enough other things
bound to M-tab in various modes that it should be perfectly fine
here.  An Emacs user should either use ESC-Tab or convince their wm
not to snag the M-tab sequence, by turning off that mapping (my
preferred route) or by separating Alt and Meta.

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