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bug#35580: hexl-mode documentation is confusing about insertion
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#35580: hexl-mode documentation is confusing about insertion |
Date: |
Sat, 11 May 2019 15:01:26 +0300 |
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 13:53:55 +0100
>
> Ordinary text characters overwrite in Hexl mode. This is to reduce
> the risk of accidentally spoiling the alignment of data in the file.
> There are special commands for insertion.
>
> (I copied this from git master just to be sure!)
>
> The list of commands underneath list several commands that have "insert" in
> their name, leading the naive
> reader (me) to believe they will insert rather than overwrite.
>
> However, this is not the case: the various keystrokes listed underneath which
> mention "insert" all overstrike.
>
> I suspect that my confusion results from guessing (incorrectly) that the
> sentence "There are special
> commands for insertion" uses the word "insertion" to oppose "overwrite"
> earlier in the paragraph; but in fact, it
> means "insertion" in the sense of "inserting a character", which happens
> always to overwrite in hexl-mode.
Thanks, I clarified this text.