The Modernization of Emacs: exists already

[Wolfgang Mederle]

Xah Lee wrote:

> In Emacs's documentation, the term Meta key should be replaced with
> the Alt key, to reflect current usage, since that is the keyboard 99%
> of personal computer users know. The "Meta key" name is a major point
> of confusion for getting people to learn Emacs. 

This is utter bullshit. On my Mac, the Meta key is mapped to the Command
key, while the Alt (Option) key is used by the system.

Follow-up to comp.emacs.