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From: daisy!dale@AI.MIT.EDU (Dale  DePriest)
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Subject: keyboard-quit cannot be bound to a key
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Date: 20 Sep 89 18:03:23 GMT
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In GNU Emacs 18.52.10 of Mon Feb 13 1989 on snuggle (berkeley-unix)

The keyboard-quit command normally bound to ^g cannot be bound to another
key.  I tried to use the command:

(global-set-key "\177" 'keyboard-quit)

to define the del key as a cancel function.

This cancels the input as expected but leaves the M-x prompt and doesn't
actually perform the function of keyboard-quit.