From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caps-mode vs. Overwrite mode Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 18:10:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83ego1p7rg.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428073874 17334 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2015 15:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:11:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 03 17:11:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3FR-0006JC-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:11:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3FQ-000169-1d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3FE-000161-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3FA-0006K4-OF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:35218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ye3FA-0006Jw-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM800500KJX7N00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 18:05:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM800K3IKLDDA90@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 18:05:37 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103532 Archived-At: > From: Dan Espen > Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:47:03 -0400 > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >> When I toggle caps-mode on, overwrite mode stops working. > >> That is, inserted characters insert instead of overwriting. > >> Any hints? > > > > The caps-mode.el that's in GNU ELPA shouldn't suffer from this > > problem, AFAIK. > > My first search only turns up caps-lock.el? > > Works better than caps-mode, but does type lower case > when the shift key is used. I can live with that I think, > might even learn to like it. How do you even get caps-mode to work? If I type any self-inserting character after turning on caps-mode, I get an error: insert-char: Symbol's value as variable is void: last-command-char