#1721 NORM FRS: Standardize keyboard shortcuts

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#1721: Standardize keyboard shortcuts
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  Reporter:  bert              |       Owner:  Eben    
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  FRS     
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:          
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment (by gnu):

 Replying to [comment:2 Eben]:
 >  - CTRL: ♦  (U+2666) Solid black diamond.  I came up with this because
 it's both very iconic and also quite distinct from the other icon elements
 in the interface, which have been mostly circles and squares.  The deal
 was closed for me when I discovered that this has historic value as well,
 since many early keyboards had a "meta key" which boasted this symbol.
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key)

 The Meta key (at least on Lisp Machines and ITS terminals and Suns) was
 definitely not the Control key.  The Meta key set a completely different
 bucky-bit with a different meaning.  You can see these meanings persisting
 in today's GNU Emacs, which got them from ITS Emacs.  Ctrl-f goes forward
 by characters; Meta-F goes forward by words.  On keyboards without META
 keys, Emacs simulates META with an Esc prefix (e.g. ESC F means Meta-F and
 is referred to as "M-F" in the documentation).  Please don't confuse
 Control and Meta by putting the same symbol on both.

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