From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single key navigation, selection, copy-paste, delete, etc. possible? Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <03a79817-fea2-4383-b4f8-72c34ccab89e@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237254055 23278 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 01:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 02:42:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjOJj-0000da-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:42:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjOIM-0002Iy-RM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.37.165.105 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237252941 11823 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2009 01:22:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.37.165.105; posting-account=7GrjgQoAAAD6slWURausdJnhFDkmQYC8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167693 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62979 Archived-At: On Mar 15, 4:27=A0am, Foss User wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using C-p, C-n, C-f, C-b, etc. for navigating. I am > wondering if I can use vi like single-key navigation by just pressing > p, n, f, b or h, j, k, l or something similar. > > I understand this is not possible because in emacs we can edit and > navigate at the same time. But there are times, when I have very > minimal editing to and more navigation or moving code around from one > section of a file to another. In such a case, I wouldn't want to > bother myself with the 'Ctrl' key. > > So, in such a case I would want a mode that I can enable where > inputting text is disabled and single key navigation, single key > selection, single key copy, paste, delete, etc. are enabled. Is it > possible? The best solution I've found so far is modal-mode.el: http://jjfoerch.com/git/modal-mode/modal-mode.el (I'm not the author) Cheers, Hugo