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

Wed Jul 29 21:18:16 CEST 2009

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I'm using the latest version from the wiki, with a recent emacs-snapshot
> (emacs 23 from CVS via http://emacs.orebokech.com/) and gnome-terminal.
> (But I tried just it with xterm as well, with the same results.) I'm not
> sure what "the multi file setup" refers to, but I'm not doing anything
> special in my .emacs: just
>
> (setq viper-mode t)                ; enable Viper at load time
> (setq viper-ex-style-editing nil)  ; can backspace past start of insert / line
> (require 'viper)                   ; load Viper
> (setq vimpulse-experimental nil)   ; don't load bleeding edge code (see 6. installation instruction)
> (require 'vimpulse)                ; load Vimpulse
> (setq woman-use-own-frame nil)     ; don't create new frame for manpages
> (setq woman-use-topic-at-point t)  ; don't prompt upon K key (manpage display)
>
> (require 'redo)       ; enables C-r (redo key)
> (require 'rect-mark)  ; enables nice-looking block visual mode
>
> Best,
> John

Try using an otherwise-empty .emacs -- remove all lines except the
ones you mentioned above.  Does that work?

Try using GNU Emacs 22.  Does that work?

If not:  Is your computer always, or usually on?  Would you like me
(or Alessandro, if he wants to do it) to SSH in and take a look?  If
so, contact me at +1-416-992-3445 or by instant messaging at
jasonspiro at gmail.com / jasonspiro at hotmail.com.  If you want to
watch me while I am working, please install tcl, expect, and kibitz
before you contact me.  If your distro doesn't package kibitz, perhaps
inside its expect package, you can download it online; I think it's
just a single expect script.