From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: user has no business toggling overwrite-mode in read-only buffers
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:42:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA457CB.2000301@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4999.1050904302.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> You got me all wrong. overwrite-mode is that little thing activated
> by your pinky when it misses the DEL key and hits the INS key. It is
> good for changing xxxxxxxxxxxx to xxxxxyyyxxxx without hitting
> DEL... maybe it should have been called overprint or overstrike mode.
I used to think that overstrike would have been a better name, but since
Emacs doesn't allow 2 glyphs to be displayed at the same buffer position,
overwrite is more accurate.
> I was just saying the user should have to do vc-toggle-read-only
> (^X^Q) before doing (<insert>) overwrite-mode.
Why? If the user types "y" or "DEL" in a read-only buffer, it is
exactly the same error whether or not the buffer is in overwrite mode or
not.
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-21 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.4954.1050790959.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-19 22:39 ` user has no business toggling overwrite-mode in read-only buffers David Kastrup
2003-04-20 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-04-21 1:32 ` Dan Jacobson
[not found] ` <mailman.4999.1050904302.21513.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-21 20:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-04-21 20:42 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-04-21 20:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-04-19 19:47 Dan Jacobson
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