Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!utkcs2!usenet From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: VIP mode, was: vi "TMP file too large" error Message-ID: <1991Feb22.144916.25468@cs.utk.edu> Date: 22 Feb 91 14:49:16 GMT References: <1991Feb22.011031.8267@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Reply-To: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) Distribution: na Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lines: 16 In article <1991Feb22.011031.8267@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, wb8foz@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. -- Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov) It will be a great day when our schools have Martin Marietta Energy Systems all the money they need and the Air Force Workstation Support has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.