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minor gotcha in tutorial

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Message #43 received at 25960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: liam <liam <at> eliam.co.uk>, 25960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25960: minor gotcha in tutorial
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 09:38:01 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 12:03:51 +0000
>> From: liam <liam <at> eliam.co.uk>
>> Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, 25960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> > 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.
>> ------------------
>> Excellent, thanks. I'll look at the daily snapshot ppa for Ubuntu instead of the default version. 
>> ----------------
>> 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
> in Emacs 25.1, 25.2, and 26.0.50.

I see the same as OP with 25.2 and 26.0.50.  I also don't understand why
the ESC- should stop applying if you wait longer, i.e., I didn't think
this was a bug.

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