From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 14:27:52 EST
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> 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 | |
> > | `ŻŻŻŻŻ` `ŻŻŻŻ` |
> > +----------------------------------+
>
> 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.
>
I'd be happy with either a red caret or a big square. My preference would
be for a square caret.
Cheers
Martin
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