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From: roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: C-X ESC-<anything> equals C-X ESC ??
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Date: 12 Sep 90 20:09:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: lakin@csli.Stanford.EDU's message of 12 Sep 90 18:47:38 GMT

You must first tell Emacs that there are more characters coming after C-x ESC.
Do this with:

  (fset 'Control-X-ESC-prefix (make-sparse-keymap))
  (global-set-key "\C-x\e" 'Control-X-ESC-prefix)
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	Roland McGrath
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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