Snippet to help inherit events in Backbone

backbone-events-inherit.js

/*

Usage:

var ParentView = Backbone.View.extend({
    events: {
        'click': 'doClick'
    }
});

var ChildView = ParentView.extend({
    events: Backbone.inheritEvents(ParentView, {
        'mouseover': 'doMouseOver',
        'mouseout': 'doMouseOut' 
    })
});

*/

Backbone.inheritEvents = function(parent, events) {
    return _.extend(_.clone(parent.prototype.events), events);
}