Re: Modifier Keys and the Archaic Meta Key, term keyboard becoming archaic soon

[Jean Louis]

- keyboard

For  the reason  that there  are so  many computers  today
without keyboards, it would be  very late to change M-x to
something   else,  as   keyboards   will  soon   disappear
as well. All the work of changing the M-x terminology will
be in vain.

* Overview of noun keyboard

The noun keyboard has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) keyboard -- (device consisting  of a set of keys on
a piano or  organ or typewriter or  typesetting machine or
computer or the like)

15. key  -- (a lever  (as in  a keyboard) that  actuates a
mechanism when depressed)

On  billions of  computers  today like  tables and  phones
there is  no mechanism and  there is  no lever on  so many
mobile devices that use virtual "keyboards". Same trend is
expected  to come  to what  is called  "desktop" computers
(desktop may be obsolete as well).

Those who report bugs for Emacs while using mobile devices
such as tablets and phones  should be seriously warned not
to use the obsolete term "keyboard".

Neither  the  Emacs manual  nor  Emacs  was ever  made  to
support "virtual keyboards". 

Users of mobile devices should be disadvised to send Emacs
complaints  while using  the incorrect  and obsolete  term
"keyboard" as  that increases chances of  blame that Emacs
key  bindings cause  repetitive strain  injureis. Finally,
there are no  key bindings on such  devices simply because
they do not have keys.

Those  getting repetitive  strain injuries  on a  "virtual
keyboard"  shall be  diagnosed  having virtual  repetitive
strain injury.

It will be questionable if  that will be justification for
a sick pay.