Re: Re[2]: INS

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 09:35:23 EST

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    On lundi, jan 20, 2003, at 11:35 Europe/Paris, Peter Lundqvist wrote:

    > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Omer Zak wrote:
    >> Would it be possible to add an option to Preferences, which will
    >> allow the
    >> user to select between the standard behavior (INS/OVR or INS in
    >> green/OVR
    >> in red or whatever not intrusive) and an intrusive behavior (defined
    >> here
    >> as a behavior which requires an extra mouse click)?
    >
    > How about something like this?
    >
    > +----------------------------------+
    > | You pressed the insert key (!) |
    > | Doing so you will write your |
    > | over any text ahead of the |
    > | cursor |
    > | |
    > | Is this what you intended? |
    > | o Never show this dialog again |
    > | ._____. .____. |
    > | | Yes | | No | |
    > | `¯¯¯¯¯` `¯¯¯¯` |
    > +----------------------------------+

    The hell, NO !!!!

    Tomas suggestion is probably the best. I'd vote for it.
    Changing the caret to a square is no big deal... and really visible.

    Hub 

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