Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!unisoft!fnf From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: echo-keystrokes Message-ID: <16@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 02:47:10 EST Article-I.D.: unisoft.16 Posted: Fri Feb 7 02:47:10 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 06:56:36 EST References: <588@smeagol.UUCP> Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish) Distribution: net Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA Lines: 15 In article <588@smeagol.UUCP> earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) writes: >control. In Emacs, whenever I try to execute a Meta command, it always >attempts to display the 'ESC' in the minibuffer, no matter how quickly I >follow the ESC with the second keystroke. Unfortunately, somehow the One of the first things I did was set the variable "echo-keystrokes" to 10 in my emacs startup file. This means you have 10 seconds to think before emacs echos your multi-character sequences in the minibuffer. -Fred =========================================================================== Fred Fish UniSoft Systems Inc, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,dual}!unisoft!fnf (415) 644 1230 TWX 11 910 366-2145 ===========================================================================