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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

I'm only just getting to grips with Vi, Vim, and ViEmu so please excuse me if this is a simple question.

When I hit <esc> in INSERT mode, ViEmu puts me back into NORMAL mode as expected, but it beeps as if there's an error. This is pretty annoying - especially when playing back macros. I don't want to set ViEmu to be silent because I *do* want beeps when there is geniunely something going wrong.

What can I do to determine why ViEmu is beeping?

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

It's weird... ViEmu should only beep if you are already in normal mode... what VS and ViEmu version are you using? Any other 3rd party add-ins? I would try it on a plain text file too, to make sure it's not due to some language service or support.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi Jon,

Thanks for getting back so quickly.

I tried it with a plain txt file and still get beeps so it's probably not a language service issue.

I copied the contents of my About dialog below (minus some irrelevant pieces). I hope that tells you what you need to know.


Cheers,
Damian.


Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Version 10.0.31118.1 SP1Rel

Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.0.30319 SP1Rel

Microsoft Office Developer Tools   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual C# 2010   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual F# 2010   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Architecture and Modeling Tools   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Code Analysis Spell Checker   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010   01019-532-2002102-70275
Microsoft Windows Phone Developer Tools - ENU   01019-532-2002102-70275
ApplicationArchitectureGuideLayerDiagrams   1.0
Crystal Reports Templates for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010   
JetBrains ReSharper 5.1   C# Edition build 5.1.3000.12 on 2011-01-28T05:05:56
Microsoft Package Manager   1.0
Microsoft Practices Project Linker   1.0
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools   10.0.31118
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB983509)   KB983509
Microsoft XNA Game Studio   4.0
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010   1.0
PowerGUIExt   1.0
SQL Server Compact 3.5 Toolbox   0.7
Telerik Reporting   
Telerik UserSettings VSExtensions   1.0.0.0
Telerik WebUI VSExtensions   2010.03.1317.0
Telerik WinForms VSExtensions   2010.03.1214.0
Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU (KB2465236)   KB2465236
ViEmu (Symnum Systems S.L.U.)   2.5.13
VisualSVN   2.0.2
TestDriven.Net 3.0 Personal

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi, Damian

I think the culprit here is our VAXesc option, which we now apply to ReSharper too. Can you set the option off ( :set novaxesc ) and see if the beep is gone? If you confirm that, we'll fix this bug, since as Jon said it should only beep when you are in normal mode.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

I removed the beep by disabling the Default Beep in system sounds.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi Isaac,

That works a treat. Thanks very much.

How do I make it persistent? I tried adding "set novaxesc" to the top of my .vimrc (C:\Users\Damian\.vimrc) but it didn't seem to have any effect.


Cheers,
Damian.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi Isaac,

Never mind, I found my answer in another forum post: _viemurc (or .viemurc) rather than [._]vimrc.


Thanks again,
Damian.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Thanks for the feedback, Damian. The next ViEmu release will have this fixed so that you don't need to disable the VAXEsc option.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi Isaac,

I recently paved my machine and decided to try ViEmu again (still not sure about Vim key bindings!). I noticed that ViEmu has been updated since I last tried it, but this issue still persists.


TTFN,
Damian.

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Re: noob Q: Why does ViEmu beep when I press esc in insert mode?

Hi Damian, for the last updates we had another priority issues to solve, thanks again, we can try to fix in a future release.