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28.0.60; Meta keys broken when viper is active

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From: John Cummings <john <at> rootabega.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#51253: 28.0.60; Meta keys broken when viper is active
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:24:54 +0000

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> John Cummings john <at> rootabega.net writes:
>
> > > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18182 was fixed in
> > > > 5d522b430bd5ecfb8f082906cd634883dbb68f3e. This changed viper-ESC-key
> > > > from <escape> to ESC, which resulted in a direct key binding of (27
> > > > . 'viper-intercept-ESC-key) while in the viper vi/insert states.
> > >
> > > Maybe that commit should just be reverted?
> >
> > I've looked into this some more, and I think reverting it is the
> > way that the entirety of the viper ESC-handling stack was designed
> > to function.
>
> I've now reverted it in emacs-28, and I'm reopening bug#18182.

Thanks, it's working again on my end! By the way, it had broken both
terminal and gui Emacs, just in different ways (re: the commit message).

I'll see what more I can do about the keymap logic.

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