Subject: Re: Mistake in http://www.abisource.com/faquser.phtml
From: Tom Hoffman (tom_hoffman@mac.com)
Date: Sat Mar 03 2001 - 11:02:45 CST
On Saturday 03 March 2001 07:35, you wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Kevin Vajk wrote:
> Speaking of which I think we should add a preference item "disable
> overstrike mode". I hate that "insert" key thing. Maybe overstrike should
> be disabled by default.
>
> Another option would be a pop-up dialog, "Do you really want to go to
> overstrike mode?" though that would probabally annoy power users it
> would help the 98% of the people who never use it.
>
I would strongly second these proposals. My seventh graders seem to end up
in overstrike mode all the time. It is probably just due to inaccurate
fingers. Regardless, it stops them dead and completely baffles them. I've
seen the same problem with high school kids using Word.
Tom Hoffman
www.as220.org/~hoffman
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