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Re:Mastering Emacs by m3talridl3y on Saturday May 23, 2015 @03:59PM (#9594151)
If emacs expects 3 modifier keys, and emacs is wildly popular with programmers, then why hasn't someone made a keyboard with the windows key renamed and remapped to the missing meta key?
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Re:Mastering Emacs by shabble on Sunday May 24, 2015 @11:43AM (#9596552)
I feel like if there was a "One True Emacs Keyboard", it would probably be something like http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/
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Re:Mastering Emacs by webaholic on Sunday May 24, 2015 @12:58AM (#9595366)
Look up HHKB, that is what the best emacs users I know prefer to use.
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Re:Mastering Emacs by abecedarius on Saturday May 23, 2015 @05:47PM (#9594507)
I do use that remapping with a Kinesis keyboard.
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Re:Mastering Emacs by emacsfodder on Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:20AM (#9595406)
you mean like this?

http://i.imgur.com/evUJkAv.jpg

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Re:Mastering Emacs by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:44PM (#9594666)
Meta is Alt.
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