Alvin, I'm a big fan of your namesake ALVIN. On Saturday 28 January 2006 15:19, Alvin wrote:
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Either way, this is normal and accepted behaviour of the Insert key.
Frankly, I consider it something no one would ever want (and I shout that every time it happens). I can see Vi having the R command and maybe some tabular or columnar kind of text editing utility or application affording that mode, but in an email client's composition interface? It has got to be the most vanishingly small percentage of users who ever use it and then rarely. It's totatly farkakte.
If you want this to be changed, I suggest looking in to the X keybindings. Perhaps disable your Insert key via X so that when you hit it, it does nothing?
I'd like to, but I still want SHIFT+Insert to initiate a paste operation. Is that possible?
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