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Going in for a medical procedure (probably nothing to be worried about) that's going to require me to start a clear liquid diet tomorrow morning. It's gonna suck, but at least 12 years as a Mormon taught me how to deal with being hungry for an extended period (because fasting). I made sure to eat well for my last meal tonight though.

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Another #elisp question: Why does #Emacs have separate bits for the meta key (2**27) and alt (2**22)? Aren't they the same key, or is it a remapping thing like the ESC prefix?
#emacs #elisp
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Holger
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not sure but IIRC the lisp machine keyboard distinguishes various special keys like ALT, META, HYPER etc. So on a modern machine they aren't distinguished, but in an alternate computing history we would have these modifiers on our keyboard and could map them differently.
Space Kadet Keyboard Lisp machine
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Howitzer105mm
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Meta and ALT are not the same key.
The original keyboards used long ago had Ctrl, Super, Hyper, Meta, and ALT keys. We now map Meta (i.e. ESC) to the Alt key on our keyboards as a convenience. I do not believe there is a way, on modern keyboards, to have both META and ALT mapped to a key. We can have Super, and Meta. I can't recall if I was able to map Hyper on a modern keyboard.

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