From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: deech Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Backspace Work Like VI Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:13:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8bb27244-8fce-477a-8534-38c72930d48d@m26g2000yqb.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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259955823 28011 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 19:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:43:43 +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 20:43:36 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 1NGe3z-0002hH-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:43:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe3z-0005Go-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:43:35 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.11.140.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1259953990 18830 127.0.0.1 (4 Dec 2009 19:13:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.11.140.210; posting-account=iIbT1QoAAAAvuMyxrxgetIu9BJhvSidP User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061013,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175330 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:70402 Archived-At: Ok, I found overwrite-mode which replaces text instead of inserting. But how do I make backspace move left instead of deleting? thanks ... -deech On Dec 4, 1:09=A0pm, deech wrote: > Hi all, > 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? > > thanks ... > -deech