Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: How to make Emacs keep quiet? Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 89 19:21:44 GMT References: <8908221704.AA13619@ketchum.uswest.com> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 23 In-reply-to: jbw@USWEST.COM's message of 22 Aug 89 17:04:02 GMT In article <8908221704.AA13619@ketchum.uswest.com> jbw@USWEST.COM (Joe Wells) writes: > I would also like to Emacs stop echoing prefix keys. It's a good > idea but it becomes absurd when your using keypad keys as prefix > keys as I do. > > According to the manual: > > (setq echo-keystrokes 0) Yesterday I upgraded Emacs 18.50 to 18.54 on a ICM32-2, to find that one of the most annoying features of that (possibly broken) 18.50 version had disappeared: keystrokes were echoed immedately instead of after a small pause. Could it be that the original poster has been bitten by this bug? Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------