How can I make emacs stop loading viper-mode?

Question

I'm developing a mode for Emacs, and everytime I switch to its buffer, viper gets turned on. I've modified viper-mode to trace where viper-mode is being called, and surprisingly set-viper-state-in-major-mode is called by running the viper-post-command-hooks, set to nil. Any idea of what is going on?

Thanks!

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EDIT: For the benefit of all beings, here is what I found out: as instructed by Trey, I started emacs with -Q and manually loaded both viper and my package. As I could reproduce the bug, the problem was on one of these packages. After line-by-line filtering, I discovered that the innoquous-looking (kill-all-local-variables) was causing the problem.

Answer 1

There's something in initialization that's causing it.

First try starting without your .emacs emacs -q. If the problem persists, then the trigger is in the site-start.el. So, talk to whomever installed Emacs and get them to remove the customizations there. You can also always use the -Q startup option to avoid loading the site-start.el.

If the problem isn't in site-start.el, and you don't think it's in your .emacs, it might be in a custom default.el file, which you can prevent from being loaded by adding:

(setq inhibit-default-init t)

to your .emacs.

If you still have a problem, then I'm 99% sure it's in your .emacs.

To be 100% sure, try emacs -Q, which runs Emacs with no customizations. If the problem persists, download and install your own Emacs b/c you surely can't trust the installation you're using.

So, now if you're convinced it's in your .emacs, start cutting out parts of your .emacs, or introduce an error in your .emacs with (error "frog"), and progressively rule out which portions of your .emacs are causing the problem.

g'luck

Answer 2

Try commenting out any references to viper mode in your .emacs. I don't get sent into viper mode, unless I start playing around with viper mode before I eval your new mode.

Maybe there's more being done with this statement than you think:

  (use-local-map ecoli-map)

Try to change some of your binds in your map. eg. j to C-j and k to C-k.

Maybe emacs is getting confused?

Answer 3

The function kill-all-local-variables will run all functions added to change-major-mode-hook, this is a common way for global minor modes to initialize themselves. For example, global font lock and global cwarn mode use this.

I haven't used viper myself, but chances are that it use this mechanism. Of course, you still would have had to enable it in your init file, somehow, so if you simply would stop doing this, it would solve your problem as well.

Answer 4

Try removing your ~/.viper config file, and also check your .custom.el for settings that might kick viper into action in your major mode (or globally).