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> jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
> >In article <9301192038.AA15952@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:
> >>   This is a feature because it was designed intentionally.
> >>   I can affirm this because I did it.
> >I understood this already.  It is still a bug.  The fact that the bug
> >first occurred in the design rather than in the implementation does not
> >change things.

  joe, i think the design came about because quoted-insert can insert
  1, 2 or more characters.  if quoted-insert overwrote, then if i had
  the word "hunchen" and i wanted to replace the 'u' with an
  "u-umlaut", the result would be "h\207en", NOT what i would want.

  perhaps an alternative design would be for quoted-insert in
  overwrite mode to overwrite only one character and insert the rest
  (ie "hunchen" -> "h\207nchen").  richard?

						--bw