Re: overwrite-mode

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From: Skip Montanaro
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 18:08

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In the newsgroup gnu.emacs.sources pot@fly.cnuce.cnr.it (Francesco Potorti`)
writes:

   In all editors I ever used, apart from Emacs, switching from insert to
   overwrite mode was a very easy task, often one or two keystrokes.

   My proposal is to bind M-o to overwrite-mode.

I agree. M-o is currently unbound. Are there other proposed uses for it,
perhaps in V19?

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Skip (montanaro@crd.ge.com)

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