GNU bug report logs - #1072
23.0.60; can't exit viper insert mode with ESC using emacsclient -t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: zack <at> upsilon.cc (Stefano Zacchiroli)

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 08:35:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu
Cc: 1072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack <at> upsilon.cc>,
        Romain Francoise <rfrancoise <at> debian.org>
Subject: bug#1072: Viper version is 3.14 of April 06, 2008; can't exit viper insert mode with ESC using emacsclient -t
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:40:21 -0800 (PST)

Michael Kifer <kifer <at> cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

  > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:48:14 +0100
  > Stefano Zacchiroli <zack <at> upsilon.cc> wrote:
  > 
  > > 1) viper-ESC-keyseq-timeout is a global variable, shared by all Emacs
  > >    clients, can it be made local to a buffer (actually it would be
  > >    enough to make it local to a client, but I don't believe it is
  > >    possible), or there is some Viper magic which would defeat this
  > >    solution not work?
  > 
  > I don't see a reason why this variable cannot be buffer-local.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about viper.

But the above does not sound right: a buffer can be used in both an X11
frame and a tty frame at the same time, so a buffer-local value won't
work.
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