Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key

[Gregory Heytings]

> Priority 1: Control Key 'C'
> Priority 2: Alternate Key 'A'
> Priority 3: Hyper Key 'H'
> Priority 4: Super Key 'P' (for middle letter, instead of 's')
> Priority 5: Shift Key 'S'
>
> This evaluation and modifications outlined is useful for users today, 
> whilst continuing with archaic elaboration on 1975 Lisp Keyboards has 
> become unproductive for new users.

You cannot change thirty years of digital and printed documentation, 
configuration files, websites, and so forth.  Moreover the meta key is not 
only used by GNU Emacs, it is also used by other GNU software such as GDB 
or Bash (and in general all software that use the readline library).  And 
Meta is not only (on most keyboards) Alt, it is also Escape.