From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making Backspace Work Like VI
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:08:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hfbq8f$t31$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8bb27244-8fce-477a-8534-38c72930d48d@m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com
deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com> writes:
> Ok, I found overwrite-mode which replaces text instead of inserting.
> But how do I make backspace move left instead of deleting?
Bind "backspace" to (backward-char).
e.g
(global-set-key (kbd "<backspace>") 'backward-char)
Yuck!
As a point I think its generally a bad idea to try and use the use cases
from one editor in another as before you know it you have a Frankenstein
editor which doesn't know what it is :-)
>
> thanks ...
> -deech
>
> On Dec 4, 1:09 pm, deech <aditya.si...@gmail.com> 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-04 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-04 19:09 Making Backspace Work Like VI deech
2009-12-04 19:13 ` deech
2009-12-04 20:08 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2009-12-04 20:17 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-12-05 8:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.12258.1260000313.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-05 14:16 ` deech
2009-12-06 14:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-12-08 5:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.12204.1259957364.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-04 21:37 ` deech
2009-12-05 3:04 ` LanX
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