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Agreed — overwrite mode is something I basically never want and am always unhappily surprised to find it's switched on. That's one of the things I like about u
by zeveb 9y ago
Agreed — overwrite mode is something I basically never want and am always unhappily surprised to find it's switched on.
That's one of the things I like about using C-a, C-e, M-v & C-v, C-d instead of home, end, pgup, pgdn & Del — much less likely to accidentally hit the wrong key. And my hands don't have to fly so far from my keyboard!
- jandrese 9y agoOverwrite mode is basically a relic from the old fixed-width record days. We just need to think up a better use for the Insert key so people don't fall back on making it the overwrite toggle. Maybe in a word processor it could bring up the "put a picture/graph/whatever" right here in this document?
- an_account 9y agoBut do you really need a dedicated key for that? Might as well just get rid of insert.