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On these keyboards the Control key was placed closest to the space bar, then the Meta key outside Control. The space-cadet keyboard added the Super key outside Meta, and the Hyper key outside that. All these keys produced shortcuts (2 4 -1 of them for every letter), but the Control ones were easiest to type and most popular, and the Meta ones ...
Some of the keys corresponding to bucky bits on modern keyboards are the alt key, control key, meta key, command key (⌘), super key, and option key. In ASCII, the bucky bit is usually the 8th bit (also known as meta bit). However, in older character representations wider than 8 bits, more high bits could be used as bucky bits.
The space-cadet keyboard was equipped with seven modifier keys: four keys for bucky bits (⎈ Control, Meta, Super, and Hyper), and three shift keys, called ⇧ Shift, Top, and Front (which was labeled on the front of the key; the top was labeled Greek). Meta had been introduced on the earlier Knight keyboard, while Hyper and Super were ...
The Knight keyboard is notable for its influence on Emacs keybindings, particularly for helping popularize the meta key, which originated with the Stanford keyboard. [2] The layout is also noteworthy: the meta key was outside the control key, which is opposite from the layout used on most modern keyboards, dating to the Model M IBM PC keyboard, which uses the Alt key instead, and places it ...
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Some non-English language keyboards have special keys to produce accented modifications of the standard Latin-letter keys. In fact, the standard British keyboard layout includes an accent key on the top-left corner to produce àèìòù, although this is a two step procedure, with the user pressing the accent key, releasing, then pressing the letter key.
Meta+b or. Ctrl+← or Meta+←. b or ge: Ctrl+←: Go to next word Ctrl+→ ⌥ Opt+→ or. Ctrl+⌥ Opt+F. Ctrl+→: Meta+f or. Ctrl+→ or Meta+→. w or e: Ctrl+→: Go to previous line ↑: ↑ or Ctrl+p: ↑: Ctrl+p or ↑: k or ↑: ↑: Go to next line ↓: ↓ or Ctrl+n: ↓: Ctrl+n or ↓: j or ↓: ↓: Go to previous line break ...
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