Re: One more time: binding overwrite-mode to Apple kbd

[David Kastrup]

kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:

>>don provan <dprovan@comcast.net> 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 <insert> 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

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