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

[Jason Spiro]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Alessandro Piras<laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, Jason is right I think. Didn't check because I'm too lazy to reboot now.
> I never tried to export EXDELAY,

You mean ESCDELAY :-)

> 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 :)

I haven't tried it:  my Linux box is currently shut off.  But I'm
curious:  What does it do?  And why doesn't Viper (not Vimpulse)
enable it by default?