From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Backspace Work Like VI Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:17:39 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87pr6ucx3w.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <6f039074-adcd-43d5-af6a-beed5f7a4289@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> <8bb27244-8fce-477a-8534-38c72930d48d@m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259962852 21568 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 21:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 22:40:44 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 1NGftL-0004YH-Us for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGftL-0008Jd-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eIAF4ESId85IUtobDa6wYkXlA0M= Original-Lines: 7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.64.250.229 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=V:PQoi9`WUg<`1ZoJZA^dLN@m]cXT5n6kBWC\_:]6nTNQMl_7dMQWWceY0Y Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175332 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:70404 Archived-At: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:13:09 -0800 (PST), deech wrote: > Ok, I found overwrite-mode which replaces text instead of inserting. > But how do I make backspace move left instead of deleting? You could install a new local keymap when overwrite-mode is enabled and bind backspace to 'backward-char.