insert/overwrite-mode toggle

insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[CarlC]

I am wanting to have my insert key toggle between insert and overwrite. I
imagine someone out there is already doing this? Thanks.

Re: insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[Richard V. Molen]

"CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:

> I am wanting to have my insert key toggle between insert and overwrite. I
> imagine someone out there is already doing this? Thanks.

In Emacs 21.2, C-h k <insert> (<-- the insert key) shows...

<insert> runs the command overwrite-mode
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
(overwrite-mode ARG)

Toggle overwrite mode.
With arg, turn overwrite mode on iff arg is positive.
In overwrite mode, printing characters typed in replace existing text
on a one-for-one basis, rather than pushing it to the right.  At the
end of a line, such characters extend the line.  Before a tab,
such characters insert until the tab is filled in.
C-q still inserts characters in overwrite mode; this
is supposed to make it easier to insert characters when necessary.

...If you're using a *nix console or xterm your termcap may not be
identifying the key, but that's beyond my experience -- google search
may help.

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Richard V. Molen

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Re: insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[Barry Margolin]

In article <u1y6fwkd4.fsf@bambecksystems.com>,
Richard V. Molen <rvmolen@bambecksystems.com> wrote:
>"CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:
>
>> I am wanting to have my insert key toggle between insert and overwrite. I
>> imagine someone out there is already doing this? Thanks.
>
>In Emacs 21.2, C-h k <insert> (<-- the insert key) shows...

><insert> runs the command overwrite-mode

And in 20.x as well.

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Re: insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[Kevin Dziulko]

Start emacs and go to the *scratch* buffer. Press Control-q. Now hit your
insert key. You will see some weird characters, something like ^[[1~.
Remember those characters.  Then in you .emacs file, put in a line like:
(global-set-key "\e[1~" 'overwrite-mode)
where the [1~ are the characters you remembered, minus the first ^[.

Hope this helps.

Kevin



On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, CarlC wrote:

> I am wanting to have my insert key toggle between insert and overwrite. I
> imagine someone out there is already doing this? Thanks.
>
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Re: insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[CarlC]

"Kevin Dziulko" <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.1035548430.6132.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Start emacs and go to the *scratch* buffer. Press Control-q. Now hit your
> insert key. You will see some weird characters, something like ^[[1~.
> Remember those characters.  Then in you .emacs file, put in a line like:
> (global-set-key "\e[1~" 'overwrite-mode)
> where the [1~ are the characters you remembered, minus the first ^[.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kevin
>

Thank you. This solved my problem.