currently vimpulse starts in vim mode, how can I change the behavior to default emacs mode instead? thanks Best regards,  Isaac

 Hi Isaac, I believe what you want to do is set "Always Invoke Viper" to nil.

The setting is in customize-group viper-misc

Tim 

thanks Tim I tried to put (setq viper-always nil) in my .emacs, and found if putting it before the vimpulse lines, it disabled vimpulse/viper at all; but putting it after the vimpulse lines seem to have no effect, the editor remains default in vimpulse mode. just thought of toggle-viper-mode function, putting it in the .emacs after the vimpulse lines, it now works as I hopped. thanks for help though! Best, Isaac