yach%cpocel@sc.intel.com (10/29/88)
using Emacs 18.49
There seems to be a problem when switching in and out of picture mode
while vip-mode is loaded. Emacs gets locked in Emacs mode and the
status line says that it is in vi mode. There does not seem to be a
way to actually get back into vi mode once the following sequence of
commands has occurred.
M-x vip-mode
C-z
M-x picture-mode
C-z
C-c C-c
It works fine if you leave picture mode in the same major mode as you
started picture mode with.
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Just for your information, in my opinion vip-mode is better than
vi-mode. With some new key bindings and some variable set up vip
looks very much like vi with all the power of Emacs. Vip also has
some fixes to things I did not like in real vi.nate@mipos2.intel.com (11/02/88)
In article <8810282343.AA05448@cpocel.local> you write: > M-x vip-mode > C-z > M-x picture-mode > C-z > C-c C-c > >It works fine if you leave picture mode in the same major mode as you >started picture mode with. Randy, One of the problems you might be having is with your invocation of picture-mode. The function you probably want to use instead is M-x edit-picture Just invoking picture-mode doesn't save the key-maps correctly; edit-picture does some mucking about with lisp variables, and *then* calls picture-mode. In fact, if you call edit-picture from inside of vi mode, you'll notice that C-z doesn't switch you to Emacs mode, but leaves you in vi mode. This is a feature. The idea of picture-mode is to jump into it for a little while, do the p-m editing you need to do, and then get back out. [That is, if you have called edit-picture, and you want to be in Emacs mode instead of vi mode, you have to C-c C-c, switch to Emacs, and then call edit-picture again.] Hope this helps, --woodstock -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes woodstock@sc.intel.com ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|amd}!intelca!mipos3!nate