Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

thanks for that:-)

It had entirely slipped me by for 30+ years because I only recently
speech-enabled set-minibuffer-message
which meant I finally heard it. Moreover that message by default
triggers based on the setting of echo-keystrokes (default is 2) and it
turns out I never waited that long. So now I have echo-keystrokes 0.01
and am happy!


 > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > > In recent versions of Emacs, if you press a prefix key and wait,
>   > > there is a message in the echo area that shows the prefix key that was
>   > > pressed.
>
>   > Actually, this feature is very old, probably as old as Emacs itself.
>
> I think I added this feature to the original Emacs in 1976-77.

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Thanks,

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