> Are you saying that no matter how long you wait, you never see "ESC-"
> in the echo area? If so, what version of Emacs do you have?
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> No, I'm saying even if I see ESC- in the echo area, C-g still results in C-M-g is undefined.
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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.
Anyway, it's beyond trivial so let's forget it and I'll go try configure this monster for C++ development. Thanks :-)