evil interferes with describe-key in Emacs 24

Mon Sep 5 18:25:23 CEST 2011

Sarah Brofeldt <sbrofeldt at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sep 5, 2011, at 14:57 , Vegard Øye wrote:
>
>> On 2011-09-05 04:06 +0200, Antono Vasiljev wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 21:42:43 +0200, Sarah Brofeldt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> When evil is enabled, C-h k M-w gives me "M-w is undefined".
>>>> If I disable evil with C-z, it works as expected again.
>>> 
>>> Same problem on linux.
>> 
>> Does this happen with all keys, or just "M-w"?
>
> It happens on "some keys (™)" - but most all single-key Meta chords.
> Eg. M-y, M-t, M-u, etc. etc. etc.

Sounds like something changed with the handling of the prefix-key
ESC/escape. Perhaps some interference with the special handling of those
keys?

Need to get an Emacs 24 somewhere ...

Frank