From: Andi Kleen (ak_at_suse.de)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 19:09:02 BST
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:47:20AM -0700, Rod Armstrong wrote: > I was hoping for more feedback from users about the keyboard > driven ideas, but there's been nothing for a week. I was wondering about a > an overstrike typing line mode that would supplement Russ's ! idea. > In the overstrike mode, characters entered would overwrite the > current character, but not move the cursor - only ^f, ^b, delete or an arrow > key would do that. It would work something like this: > > 1. ^o would toggle between the insert mode with the vertical cursor between > letters, to the overstike mode with a horizontal line under a letter. Please make it also possible to just use the "Ins" key on keyboards that have it; e.g. with a configuration file. I would in general suggest to steal keybinding from an existing well known editor like emacs or vi or ws; this way users will be more easy able to learn them. -Andi
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