.emacs file problem

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From: Paul B. Poh
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:12

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I'm running emacs 18.58, I created a .emacs file with the following two
lines:

(global-set-key "\M-Ou" 'goto-line)
(global-set-key "\M-g" 'goto-line)

When I run emacs, the key sequence "\M-Ou" does not get set to 'goto-line.
Doing a M-x apropos goto-line shows:

goto-line	ESC g

however I can set the key sequence "\M-Ou" key by doing a M-x
eval-expression (global-set-key "\M-Ou" 'goto-line) in emacs.

But more interestingly, when I run the same .emacs file under X.

% emacs -display machine:0.0

The key sequence "\M-Ou" does get set correctly.

Using various other characters should as a, p, f instead of u can 
also change the result of wheather the key sequences gets bound.

M-x describe-bindings doesn't show that other of those bindings 
are already used.

Any ideas? :=)
--
Paul Poh                        Unix Systems Programmer
ppoh@amethyst.tcs.tufts.edu     Computer Services, Tufts University

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