Congratulations! You may have unearthed a bug in Viper! Please mail a concise, accurate summary of the problem to the address above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't have a reproducible case (sorry) and am working on debugging this myself, but it's hard to reproduce. I have emacs up all the time and I've noticed that after "a few hours" viper-mode won't be entered in automatically for new buffers (loaded with C-x C-f or :r. It doesn't seem to matter). I have to M-x viper-mode manually. Up until this point I've focused on set-viper-state-in-major-mode. It looks like viper-current-state is set to vi-state even though I'm not in viper-mode. This seems wrong to me (I'm assuming this state is only set when in viper-mode), but I can't figure out how it's happening. Googling has not been productive yet, hence this (rather unhelpful, I imagine) bug report. Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-04-05 on KAEL Package: Viper version is 3.14.2 of July 4, 2013 current state: ============== (setq viper-vi-minibuffer-minor-mode nil viper-insert-minibuffer-minor-mode nil viper-vi-intercept-minor-mode t viper-vi-local-user-minor-mode t viper-vi-kbd-minor-mode t viper-vi-global-user-minor-mode t viper-vi-state-modifier-minor-mode t viper-vi-diehard-minor-mode nil viper-vi-basic-minor-mode t viper-replace-minor-mode nil viper-insert-intercept-minor-mode nil viper-insert-local-user-minor-mode nil viper-insert-kbd-minor-mode nil viper-insert-global-user-minor-mode nil viper-insert-state-modifier-minor-mode nil viper-insert-diehard-minor-mode nil viper-insert-basic-minor-mode nil viper-emacs-intercept-minor-mode nil viper-emacs-local-user-minor-mode nil viper-emacs-kbd-minor-mode nil viper-emacs-global-user-minor-mode nil viper-emacs-state-modifier-minor-mode nil viper-automatic-iso-accents nil viper-special-input-method nil viper-want-emacs-keys-in-insert nil viper-want-emacs-keys-in-vi t viper-keep-point-on-undo nil viper-no-multiple-ESC nil viper-electric-mode t viper-ESC-key [escape] viper-want-ctl-h-help nil viper-ex-style-editing t viper-delete-backwards-in-replace nil viper-vi-style-in-minibuffer t viper-vi-state-hook 'viper-restore-cursor-type viper-insert-state-hook 'viper-set-insert-cursor-type viper-replace-state-hook 'viper-restore-cursor-type viper-emacs-state-hook 'viper-restore-cursor-type ex-cycle-other-window t ex-cycle-through-non-files nil viper-expert-level 2 major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode viper-device-type 'w32 color-display-p t frame-parameters '((tool-bar-position . top) (parent-id) (explicit-name) (display . "w32") (visibility . t) (icon-name) (window-id . "132178") (top + -8) (left + -8) (buried-buffer-list # #) (buffer-list # # # # # # # # #> # # # # # #) (unsplittable) (minibuffer . #) (modeline . t) (width . 211) (height . 52) (name . "emacs@MANN") (viper-vi-state-cursor-color . "dodgerblue") (viper-saved-cursor-color-in-replace-mode . "dodgerblue") (environment) (cursor-color . "dodgerblue") (background-mode . dark) (display-type . color) (horizontal-scroll-bars . t) (window-system . w32) (scroll-bar-width . 0) (cursor-type . box) (auto-lower) (auto-raise) (icon-type) (fullscreen . maximized) (title) (buffer-predicate) (tool-bar-lines . 0) (menu-bar-lines . 1) (alpha) (right-fringe . 9) (left-fringe . 9) (line-spacing) (screen-gamma) (border-color . "black") (mouse-color . "green") (background-color . "darkslategrey") (foreground-color . "white") (vertical-scroll-bars) (bottom-divider-width . 0) (right-divider-width . 0) (internal-border-width . 0) (border-width . 2) (font . "-outline-Consolas-normal-normal-normal-mono-16-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1") (font-backend uniscribe gdi)) minibuffer-vi-face [face unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified] minibuffer-insert-face [face unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified] minibuffer-emacs-face [face unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified unspecified] ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. 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