> > No, I'm saying even if I see ESC- in the echo area, C-g still results in C-M-g is undefined.
> >
> > Version = GNU Emacs
24.5.1
>
> Right, that was a bug in that version of Emacs. It is fixed in Emacs 25.1.
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> Excellent, thanks. I'll look at the daily snapshot ppa for Ubuntu instead of the default version.
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> actually, it's the same in GNU Emacs
26.0.50.
Not here. I do see the behavior you describe in Emacs 24.5, but not
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Ignore that this is a phone - it's a remote ssh shell to a Ubuntu server
16.04 machine running the latest
26.0.50 from ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa.