Here is why Emacs uses the Meta key

Remember my article on why vi uses hjkl keys? It got very popular so I thought I'd also do an article about Emacs. When Stallman and Steele created Emacs, they both worked at MIT's AI lab. The systems they worked on had these funny keyboards with a bunch of extra keys called Hyper, Super, Meta and Control. Meta was closer to the pinky finger so that's why it was adopted by Emacs. Hyper and Super n

[supermomonga]

右の方に「いいね！」がある

[msykt]

METAがあるキーボードを見たことがなかった。HYPERとかSUPERもあるのか…

[itouhiro]

Emacsが作られたキーボードは、現在の英語キーボードの記号配置だったのか。確かに C-_ とかは英語キーボード配置じゃないとネットワーク通らないし

[mieki256]

Emacsもチートだ…