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From: Roman Belenov <no@spam.please>
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Subject: Re: Do Keyboards Still Include =?windows-1251?B?k0NvcGlsb3SU?= Keys?
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> Emacs also knows about the “Hyper” modifier key, but there seems to be
> no available key on currently-common PC keyboards that could serve
> that function ...

For some reason (probably just random choice) I mapped Windows key to
Hyper in my Emacs setup back in 90s. I see that Super is kind of
standard now, but it is easier to change system settings than all
keybindings in Emacs configs.

Regards, Roman