On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Mark Reglewski wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> christiaan pauw wrote: >>> Thanks Jürgen, it worked >>> Incidentally, How does M-x work. Is "M" some special key that you hold >>> down. I have a macbook, so I have fn,ctrl, alt and cmd -is it one of >>> them? >>> >>> Thanks again for saving my day >> Ah, sorry. M is the "Meta-Key", which is Alt here on my Linux PC. I think >> it's the Apple key on the Mac, but I'm not sure. > > No, the "option" key. On my year-old keyboard, there is a small "alt" at > the top of this key to help the confused. > > Meta-Key is an Emacs expression isn't it? Or is it in more general use in > Unix/Linux land?
It's pretty Emacs-ish. We have a few of those relics hanging around. I am not sure this needs to stay like that in the long run... Andre'
