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What is the meta key when in emacs evil mode?

I have the leader key defined like this:

(require 'evil-leader)
(global-evil-leader-mode)
(evil-leader/set-leader ",")
(evil-leader/set-key
  "." 'eval-buffer
  "," 'projectile-find-file
  "t" 'dired-jump
  "c" 'comment-or-uncomment-region
  "w" 'save-buffer
  "b" 'switch-to-buffer
  "k" 'kill-buffer)

But I don't think that there is a direct 1 to 1 mapping between leader-key and meta key.

A lot of the emacs key binding examples use the meta key and I have no idea what it is.

dagda1
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    From the Emacs FAQ: [No Meta key](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/No-Meta-key.html). The Meta key is completely unrelated to the `evil-leader`. Please try one of the various Emacs tutorials (including the built-in one: `C-h t`) -- you really should know at least some of the basics about how Emacs works even if you plan to live in `evil`. – Dan Aug 14 '14 at 19:57

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From the Emacs FAQ:

On many keyboards, the < Alt > key acts as < Meta >, so try it.

Instead of typing M-a, you can type < ESC >[then] < a > . In fact, Emacs converts M-a internally into < ESC > < a > anyway (depending on the value of meta-prefix-char). Note that you press < Meta > and < a > together, but with , you press < ESC >, release it, and then press < a >

ben rudgers
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