Alright, you guys convinced me! Im gonna get used to the usual keybinds. I love emacs, but i read in some blogs about viper-mode for emacs and wanted to experiment the modal keybinds. Thanks for the answers and sorry to disturbing you guys. Best Regards, Alessandro Stamatto. 2010/5/29 ahei > I agree this, and I want to know, why you want to use Viper mode? Delete > text more conveniently. BTW viper-mode already support up down left right. > > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Lennart Borgman < > lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Alessandro Stamatto >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm using Viper-Mode in emacs. And i don't like the movement keys of >> Vi... I >> > would like to do those simple customizations in it: >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > change the movement keys to: i -> up , j -> left, k -> down , l -> >> right . >> > change the 'Esc' key behavior to: If in Command Mode change to Insert >> Mode >> > as if i had pressed the 'i' key. >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Is there an easy way to do those customizations? If yes, how can i do >> it? >> >> >> I think those movement keys in vi where chosen to optimize speed. >> Normally you rest your fingers on those keys (i.e h j k l). >> >> I don't think it takes long to get use to them. >> >> And there are other places outside Emacs where it is useful to know >> those keys (I use some of it in gmail for example). >> >> Do you really want to change the keys? >> >> If you do then just look for the keymaps where they are bound. Maybe >> some of it is hardcoded because the request to be able to move them is >> quite weak. >> >> >