Editing Command key

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{{infobox dkeyboardkey
| name       = Command
| image name = Key--Command (1990s).svg
| names      = Command, Windows, Meta, Super
| mac symbol = ⌘
| usb        = Keyboard Left GUI, Keyboard Right GUI
}}

The '''command key''' is the key on Macintosh computers used for invoking [[keyboard shortcut]]s. Unlike Windows, where there are two ([[control key|control]] and [[alt key|alt]]), all shortcuts on the Macintosh use command. The [[option key]] is held down in conjunction for alternate behaviours of commands, and overloading uses the [[shift key]].

When a keyboard designed for [[Microsoft Windows]] is connected to a Macintosh, the [[Windows key]] functions as the command key; this follows Apple's historical mapping of the PC [[alt key]] to the option key, with the result that the command key and option key positions are reversed with respect to a normal Macintosh keyboard. Likewise, when a Macintosh keyboard is connected to a Windows PC, the command key becomes the Windows key.

==Symbol==
The symbol on the command key is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John%27s_Arms Saint Hannes cross], used as a road sign for [http://www.vagmarken.com/sevardhet/| Place of Interest/attraction] in Nordic countries. It was chosen as a replacement for the [[Apple]] symbol by icon designer Susan Kare from a dictionary of symbols after Steve jobs had had an outburst about the proliferation of the Apple symbol in Lisa's menus.<ref name="folklore">[http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Swedish_Campground.txt Swedish Campground]. Folklore.org. August 1983. Retrieved 2014-04-04</ref>

==See also==
* [[Control key]]
* [[Amiga key]]
* [[Windows key]]

==References==
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[[Category:Modifier keys]]