Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!daisy!dale From: daisy!dale@AI.MIT.EDU (Dale DePriest) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: keyboard-quit cannot be bound to a key Message-ID: <8909201803.AA05492@snearth.daisy.com> Date: 20 Sep 89 18:03:23 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 12 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.