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

Wed Jul 29 22:22:44 CEST 2009

+++ Jason Spiro [Jul 29 09 19:18 ]:
> 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?

I tried using -q to suppress loading of .emacs, and just loading
the vimpulse stuff manually.  No change.  I tried it with emacs 22.
That didn't help.  I even tried it in a console.  No change.

But then I noticed something -- visual mode actually *does*
work when I move the cursor using hjkl. But when I use the arrow keys,
it causes vimpulse to leave visual mode. Visual mode works fine with
arrow keys when I run gtk emacs.

One more clue:  when this happens, if you check *Messages*, it
contains the line:
Toggling vimpulse-visual-mode off; better pass an explicit argument.
This seems to be caused by the use of arrow keys.

Best,
John