Map some other function to the insert key

[Eric Dunbar]

> I hate to say it, but mpt's article occasionally fails to discern between
> ideal UI and the real world. Given that we're a user-centric distribution,
> our priority has to be *all* our users, not just the utter newbies who've
> never touched a computer before.

GUI design for a widely used distro should target as many users AS
POSSIBLE. Advanced users can still get their work done in environments
friendly to "beginners" or non-experts (I know people who have been
using computers longer than I have (& I started at age 9 and recently
cracked the magical 30) and yet they would not be considered
"advanced") but the reverse isn't true!

> Caps Lock especially is used by a
> surprising number of people; I know for a fact that both my parents, by way
> of an example, use caps lock extensively and break into tears whenever they
> use my computers that have ctrl:nocaps.

Sometimes it'd be nice to disable Caps Lock but I do end up using it
*on occasion* (very rarely, but orders of magnitude more frequently
than over-write mode).

> At most, we should disable the insert key entirely and leave Caps Lock
> totally alone, however I think this is still going too far and that we
> should leave both keys well alone.

It makes sense to turn insert into paste. For the vast majority of
users (including power users) that'll be a far more useful use than
toggeling over-write or creating a "dead" key.

Eric.