On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Silvio Levy <levy@msri.org> wrote:

> Dear emacs folks
>
> in trying to debug some bad interactions between vip.el (VI emulation)
> and icicles, I've come against an obstable I can't surmount: M-x
> sometimes ceases to be M-x and becomes instead ESC-x.
>
> Minimal example: I run "emacs -q -l foo.el" where foo.el contains this
> code:
>
> (defun doit ()
>  "run test"
>  (interactive)
>  (defvar vip-mode-map (make-keymap))
>  (define-key vip-mode-map "\e" 'kill-line)
>  (use-local-map vip-mode-map)
> )
>
> Then I into a scratch buffer and type M-x doit<RET> -- so far so good.
> After that, when I type M-x the behavior, it is as if I had typed ESC
> and x: the current line is killed and an x is inserted.
>
> Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Silvio
>
>
> I'm a novice but from what I read in an GNU emacs manual ESC and Meta are
initially the same. So maybe you mapped something to ESC and emacs is
confused?
-- 
Alexander
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