bug#1072: Viper version is 3.14 of April 06, 2008; can't exit viper insert mode with ESC using emacsclient -t

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

  > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:48:14 +0100
  > Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> wrote:
  > 
  > > 1) viper-ESC-keyseq-timeout is a global variable, shared by all Emacs
  > >    clients, can it be made local to a buffer (actually it would be
  > >    enough to make it local to a client, but I don't believe it is
  > >    possible), or there is some Viper magic which would defeat this
  > >    solution not work?
  > 
  > I don't see a reason why this variable cannot be buffer-local.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about viper.

But the above does not sound right: a buffer can be used in both an X11
frame and a tty frame at the same time, so a buffer-local value won't
work.