VIP mode, was: vi "TMP file too large" error
Dave Sill
de5 at ornl.gov
Sat Feb 23 01:49:16 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb22.011031.8267 at mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, wb8foz at mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>
>Is it possible, in VIP mode, or elseways, to have a SAFE key in emacs?
>By this I mean a key that REGARDLESS of what you are doing, or what
>weird mode you have stumbled into, hitting it 1->n times gets you to a
>fixed mode. Note that 'undo' does NOT do this.
Sure, you could bind the equivalent of "control-G escape" to some key.
Hitting it once or twice would always put you back in VIP command
mode. Hitting control-G alone will put you back in VIP in whatever
VI-mode you were in, e.g., comman or insert.
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