From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Some installation questions
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:40:03 -0300
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Nick wrote:
> 
> > I assumed that the M refers to an ESC
> > keypress, from long ago encounters with EMACS.
> 
> M means alt.

Specifically, IIRC, M means 'Meta' which I believe was the name of a
status key like Ctrl, Alt, or Shift in some earlier keyboard emacs
started.