> Date: Sat, 04 Mar
2017 07:46:05 +0000
>
> > But the pending is gone, right? AFAIK, that's how it's supposed
> > to work.
>
> I don't think it's the same. Try C-u follow by C-g. You'll see 'Quit' in the status and no alert noise. There are
> plenty of undefined key sequences and keying them doesn't mean the sequence was cancelled. Anyway, it's
> so minor it really doesn't matter but as it's in the tutorial I thought I'd mention it.
I guess you get "C-M-g is undefined" if you type C-g quickly enough
after ESC. If you wait for a few seconds, until "ESC-" appears in the
echo area, before you type C-g, you should get just "Quit", as in
other cases. Do you see this on your system?
If the above describes what happens on your system, then Noam is
right: that's how this is supposed to work. Emacs allows you to use
ESC as a prefix that converts the next key into its Meta variant, so
C-g is converted into C-M-g. But it still gets rid of the ESC that
you typed by mistake.
And yes, if you type an undefined sequence, it _is_ canceled when
Emacs says its undefined.
Thanks.
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Hi,
This behaviour is the same regardless of how long I wait after pressing esc. I didn't mean it wasn't cancelled (I know I said that!), I meant there is a difference between "user cancelled" and "unrecognised sequence". I was expecting the former from the way the tutorial was worded.
Thanks,