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The easy solution is to replace all occurences of '128' in evi.el with
'256'.

The reason the error happens is because Epoch 4.2 attempts to deal
with 8-bit input; one part of this is to make keymaps 256 elements
long (rather than 128 elements long, which is the case in vanilla
Emacs).  (This ``feature'' should probably be disabled unless
EIGHTBIT_KEYBOARD is defined, but normally nothing breaks.)

If a vector of any length other than 256 is treated by an application
as a keymap, Epoch 4.2 will reject it.  evi.el uses make-vector with a
hardcoded parameter of 128 to generate keymaps (rather than
make-keymap, which is what it probably should be using), which is why
it breaks.

Of course, one could also argue that anyone emulating vi under Emacs
has problems to begin with :-) :-) :-)...

Cheers,

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Epoch Development Team
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu