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From: nate@mipos2.intel.com
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: small problem with vip-mode and picture-mode
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Date: 1 Nov 88 19:36:21 GMT
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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
-- 
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