Subject: bug#21517: 11.88.8; Error parsing wrong in Plain TeX mode

From: David Kastrup <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:25:05 +0200

jfbu <[email-masked]> writes:

> Another big moment must have been
> years later when I started having an Emacs on a Mac OS,
> and understood that say C-M-s (whatever it does) was to be
> keyed in Escape then a fraction of a second later CTRL-s.

More like a fraction of an hour.  The timing is only critical on serial
line ASCII terminals where the cursor keys create some sequence starting
with ESC.  In that case only, you should _not_ followup an ESC
immediately with a (or so) if you wanted to key in M-a but instead wait
a tiny moment (read-key-delay I think).

-- 
David Kastrup