emacs vimpulse errors

Question

I've just recently started to use emacs a bit, solely for org-mode. I'm a heavy vim user, so I installed vimpulse to attempt to keep my org-mode usage as close to vim as possible.

However, I've been hitting some errors when I try to use some features. For example, if I press V for visual line mode, select some lines, and then push d, it should delete those lines. Instead, I get the following error:

Symbol's function definition is void: vimpulse-delete-text-objects-function

Similarly, if I try to use ciw for "change this word", I get (after hitting the i):

Symbol's function definition is void: vimpulse-change-text-objects-command

If I open the source for vimpulse, I can clearly see the definitions for these two functions, so they're not undefined. That was about my best guess though as to what could be causing this. Anyone with more experience with emacs/vimpulse that knows what's actually going wrong?

Answer 1

Try running emacs without any of your customizations:

emacs -q

Then manually load in the vimpulse and org-mode packages:

M-x find-file /path/to/some/org-file
M-x org-mode
M-x load-file /path/to/vimpulse.el RET

And try your cid and v DOWN DOWN d.

I expect that will work properly (it did for me, Emacs 23.1). If it does, then you've got something in your .emacs that's mussing stuff up. If not, then we've got to do some more debugging.