From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 11:43:20 EST
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:53 -0000
> From: Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: INS
>
>
> Many times I have hit INS by accident together with the Backspace
> key, and when at the end of a document this is rather hard to spot.
> The INS indicator is only of limited value, because it requires that I
> _consciously_ check which mode I am in (when I type I pay most of
> my attention to either the text I am typing from or the text in the main
> window; I suspect most of us who touch type are in the same boat).
>
> What I was going to suggest even before this thread started was to
> use the same trick Emacs does and change the colour of the caret
> in the OVER mode to a bright colour (bright red?). This would be
> simple to implement, clearly noticeable, and unobtrusive.
curses, skim reading
sorry, i misread your suggestion.
I am not sure how to handle colour changes in an accessible way and i
would have to ask and expert.
the suggestion Joaquin made was that the caret should change from
| to [] (my ascii approximation of a block, which is techinically a
cursor, iirc).
Later
Alan H.
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