Re: viper and the minibuffer text color

[andrés ramírez]

Hi. Thorsten.
My comments below.

>>>>> "Thorsten" == Thorsten Bonow <thorsten.bonow@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

[...]

    Thorsten> No, it's not a bug.  You activated Viper and GNU Emacs behaves 
accordingly ;-)

Ok. That is good to know. The reason I am asking is because evil-mode does not 
change that
face.

    Thorsten> Viper indicates in which vi/viper state it is in by visual 
feedback.  The "pink"
    Thorsten> you're seeing is `viper-minibuffer-insert-face', the face used in
    Thorsten> `viper-minibuffer-insert' which is the---quoting from the 
documentation---"Face used
    Thorsten> in the Minibuffer when it is in Insert state".  You could 
customize
    Thorsten> `viper-minibuffer-insert' if you want to change it.  (Which I 
wouldn't do until being
    Thorsten> so familiar with Viper and the reasoning behind it to make an 
informed decision.)
    
As I came from evil. Some evil users had found a different way of detecting the
states. It involves the funct (which changes the modeline color):
,---- [  ]
| (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'do--change-mode-line-color-by-viper-state)
`----

I am sharing my complete viper setup(JIC):
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https://termbin.com/zzfu
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    Thorsten> Hope this helps, Toto

Yes. It helps. Thanks.

Best Regards