[implementations-list] Re: vimpulse - visual select with emacs -nw

Thu Jul 30 04:30:58 CEST 2009

+++ Jason Spiro [Jul 29 09 20:16 ]:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:41 PM, John MacFarlane<jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > +++ Alessandro Piras [Jul 29 09 22:25 ]:
> >> Yeah, Jason is right I think. Didn't check because I'm too lazy to reboot now.
> >> I never tried to export EXDELAY, but I got rid of my ESC problems with
> >> this piece of elisp in my .emacs:
> >>
> >> (when tty-erase-char
> >>   (set-input-mode t nil t)
> >>   (setq viper-no-multiple-ESC t))
> >> This should get rid of the stupid ALT=ESC problem that bugs everyone
> >> that uses viper in terminals, but I've no idea at all if it works in
> >> gnome terminal. It works for me in konsole, konsole+screen and xterm
> >> too iirc. Try it and let me know :)
> >
> > Sorry, that didn't work for me either.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know how to fix the problem.  I don't know why ESCDELAY
> didn't work; the most likely explanation is that Emacs doesn't use
> ncurses.  You can try waiting a while
> to see if someone else on this list replies.  Or you can try the
> help-gnu-emacs list (if you do, then please crosspost to this list.)
> Or you can switch to running Emacs in your windowing system instead of
> a terminal.
> 
> Either way, let us know what you decide to do in the end -- I am curious.

Thanks for all your help -- at least we know what the problem is now. I
guess I'll have to learn to use hjkl for navigation and stop using the
arrow keys!

John