From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LanX Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Backspace Work Like VI Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:04:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8851327a-957e-494e-b357-fbbe07013d88@r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <6f039074-adcd-43d5-af6a-beed5f7a4289@z41g2000yqz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259984536 21525 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2009 03:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 03:42:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 04:42:10 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 1NGlX7-00078v-21 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:42:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGlX6-0001TX-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:42:08 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.59.69.166 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1259982277 21811 127.0.0.1 (5 Dec 2009 03:04:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 03:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.59.69.166; posting-account=W9fpQwoAAADZYmkl-8sXk1VPxG3rq-Pd User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.14, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175339 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:70415 Archived-At: On 4 Dez., 20:09, deech wrote: > In Vi, in insert mode, backspace does the same thing as the left > arrow, and every keystroke overwrites a character. Is there a similar > "replace mode" in emacs? Deech, you may be interested to test M-x viper-mode Cheers rolf