Re: user has no business toggling overwrite-mode in read-only buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> You got me all wrong.  overwrite-mode is that little thing activated
> by your pinky when it misses the DEL key and hits the INS key.  It is
> good for changing xxxxxxxxxxxx to xxxxxyyyxxxx without hitting
> DEL... maybe it should have been called overprint or overstrike mode.


I used to think that overstrike would have been a better name, but since
Emacs doesn't allow 2 glyphs to be displayed at the same buffer position,
overwrite is more accurate.


> I was just saying the user should have to do vc-toggle-read-only
> (^X^Q) before doing (<insert>) overwrite-mode.

Why?  If the user types "y" or "DEL" in a read-only buffer, it is
exactly the same error whether or not the buffer is in overwrite mode or
not.


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