From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Backspace Work Like VI Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:08:47 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: 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=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259957398 585 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 20:09:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:09:58 +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 21:09:51 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 1NGeTN-0005KZ-Ks for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGeTN-0007CR-CZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGeSw-00079V-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGeSr-0006z9-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39669 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGeSr-0006yh-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57227) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGeSq-00075R-U9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGeSm-00057B-Ms for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:12 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:12 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:70403 Archived-At: deech 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 "") '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 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 > --