Mapping ESC in minibuffer normal mode to keyboard-quit and autoindent woes

Sun Mar 13 07:12:35 CET 2011

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Vegard Øye <vegard_oye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011-03-11 23:35 +0100, Justin Zhu wrote:
>
> > I like to have ESC behave like C-g in normal mode in the minibuffer
>
> The most straightforward way is to disable Viper in the minibuffer:
>
>    (remove-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'viper-minibuffer-setup-sentinel)
>    (defadvice viper-set-minibuffer-overlay (around vimpulse activate) nil)
>    (defadvice viper-has-face-support-p (around vimpulse activate) nil)
>    (define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "ESC") 'abort-recursive-edit)
>

I like the modal editing of the minibuffer, just that it would be nice for
pressing
ESC multiple times to exit the minibuffer.

> That will remove all modal functionality when using Ex.
>
> > Another issue is vimpulse messing with comment indenting. I have RET
> > bound to comment-indent-new-line so that in a comment, pressing
> > enter inserts a comment prefix. However, with vimpulse on, it
> > inserts an extra tab to the new line.
>
> This should work without binding RET yourself -- Viper binds RET to
> `viper-autoindent', which in Vimpulse calls `comment-indent-new-line'.
> I am unable to reproduce the behavior in c-mode or java-mode. What
> major mode are you using? Are you using the Git version of Vimpulse?
>
> I'm using scala-mode with latest git version.

> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Please note that Vimpulse is being discontinued in favor of Evil,[1]
> which will do everything Vimpulse does and much more. I will still
> provide basic support for Vimpulse to ease the transition, but once
> Evil hits its first release, Vimpulse is officially obsolete.
>
> [1] http://gitorious.org/evil
>
> --
> Vegard
>

Cool! I'm looking forward to the first release.
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