Stepan Nemec writes: (setq meta-prefix-char -1) might help. See the C-h v doc for that variable. I don't do this myself so no promises here .... P.S. I apologize for mutilating your name, some recent update of VM has completely screwed up MIME encoding, and I'm too short of time to figure out how to make it DTRT. :-( _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Stepan Nemec writes: Sure, but GNU Emacs keymaps are known to be buggy with respect to C-g at least. I wouldn't be surprised if the same issues affect ESC. What exactly are you doing and what is happening? It works for me, with (define-key global-map 'escape (lambda () (interactive) (message "It worked!"))) (setq meta-prefix-char -1) Now typing ESC immediately gives the message "It worked!" (XEmacs is a recent build from hg, exact revision on request). Then (define-key global-map 'escape esc-map) restores ESC to a prefix character (but I don't know if behavior is completely normal), and I finished with (setq meta-prefix-char 27) (Still haven't fixed my VM config....) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta