How to bind ESC to keyboard-escape-quit in Emacs?

Question

Normally keyboard-escape-quit is bound to EscEscEsc. Is it possible to rebind it to a single Esc? I never use Escape as a prefix key.

I'm running Emacs 23.0.60.1 on Windows XP.

Answer 1

You can do it, but at the expense of killing the Esc prefix key map The code to do this is (global-set-key "" 'keyboard-escape-quit) where the funny char is is escape (use ^Q esc to type it in) it will map esc for you but the rest of the keymap is gone after that

Answer 2

You can do it, but at the expense of killing the Esc prefix key map The code to do this is (global-set-key "" 'keyboard-escape-quit) where the funny char is is escape (use ^Q esc to type it in) it will map esc for you but the rest of the keymap is gone after that

Answer 3

Not to say this is right for you, but when I had this problem I taught myself to press Ctrl-g instead, which is also bound to keyboard-escape-quit by default. For me, this has the advantage of keeping my left hand pretty close to the home position, as well as leaving my Esc prefix intact.

Edit: After reading through the linked page, it's not bound to exactly the same function, and on Windows Ctrl-g can't forcibly interrupt a running command, but Ctrl-g covers 99% of what I would use Esc Esc Esc for --- aborting a command that I screwed up entering.

Answer 4

Rehashing other's answer, I have

(global-set-key (kbd "<escape>")      'keyboard-escape-quit)

in my .emacs file, and it works on my emacs 22 on WinXP. I also hate typing 3 ESC in a row; and from years of (windows) habits my finger goes so naturally to the escape key for getting out of anything unpleasant.