letter(2m)

NAME

letter - Letter kill policy

SYNOPSIS

letter Mode

l - mode line letter.

DESCRIPTION

By default individually deleted characters are not added to the kill buffer unless an argument is given to the command. This allows the user to delete characters while preserving the kill buffer, at the expense of not being able to yank(2) the character back out. Enabling letter mode ensures that all deleted characters are added to the kill buffer.

NOTES

This mode is implemented for backwards compatability only and the use of it is strongly discouraged as this may alter the behaviour of many on the supporting macros. If this feature is required it would be preferable to use a numeric argument with the delete or backspace key binding as follows:

1 global-bind-key backward-delete-char "backspace" 

The use of the numeric argument of 1 has the same effect.

SEE ALSO

buffer-mode(2), global-mode(2), yank(2), line(2m).

(c) Copyright JASSPA 1999
Last Modified: 1999/08/23
Generated On: 1999/12/01