From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One more time: binding overwrite-mode to Apple kbd Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:56:32 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85vepwuygf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153147234 28154 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 14:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 16:40:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2UGq-0003eY-0E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2UGp-0004Jx-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:36SnFlZ8RJNbGVci/HMquIDahdc= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jul 2006 15:56:57 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: e5668d82.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC==I^m6Zkon2KJ2=Pn8=T1[JQ5U85hF6f; DjW\KbG]kaMHGSi?jHD8GO@8Hig`fXUj6H1_LiI6ENVaM3>5MOK`O=RKGD5P 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:36015 Archived-At: kj writes: >>don provan writes: > >>> Wait, you *want* to toggle the useless overwrite-mode on? >>> Are you crazy? I wish my PC keyboard *didn't* have an insert >>> key. Not that it's a problem with Emacs, of course, but in >>> Windows applications, accidentally finding myself in >>> overwrite mode drives me crazy. > > Nothing smart about it, I'm afraid. I just *never* find myself > accidentally hitting the key so it is never a problem. > (The caps lock key, on the other hand, has more than once led to > massive mayhem and destruction in my rare sessions with > that-other-text-editor.) Configure the X server to make it another control. > I think Emacs' overwrite-mode is very handy whenever I'm editing > text in which, for visual/legibility reasons, the position of > characters on the line matters; it's faster than inserting the new > and deleting the old. If there's a better alternative, I'm all > ears. M-x picture-mode RET -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum