Map some other function to the insert key

[Carl Karsten]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>But why to change behaviour that is widely known?
> It's NOT (since 1980)! That's the point of this discussion.

Got suport for " over-write mode isn't widely known?"  (which I think is 
what your "It" refers to.)

I will admit I havn't used the over-write mode we are discussing in 
quite a while, but I sure remember it being a part of what I know.  But 
just because a few 100 people here on this list might have somethig to 
say about it, I don't thin that is enough to really know how it will 
impact the "average Ubuntu user."  This list is not a random sampeling - 
we generally have something in common that I think would also skew our 
view of what the Insert key should do.

Ever notice that a telephone keypad is an upside down 10-key?  (10-key = 
the number pad layout, and adding machines.)  Pretty sure that decision 
was made in a vacume - something like some guy in an office thought 
"People read top to bottem, so lets put the 1 at the top."  Because of 
that, I misdial numbers now and then because it touch type like I am a 
checker at the food store.

> 
> 
>>Aslo, saying "insert != override so this key should never switch
>>editor to override mode" Makes perfectly the same sence as saying
>>"lock != unlock, so pressing Caps Lock should never allow to unlock
>>casp".
> 
> 
> Lock and unlock are opposites. Only in some strange parallel universe
> are over-write and insert opposites. Insert vs. over-write mode are
> also not even opposites. Delete and Insert are opposites. Over-write
> feels like a programming error when it happens to me!
> 

Well, Insert and "Not Insert" are opposites, so what else should happen 
when you are adding chard but not Inserting?

Has anyone mentioned the Typewriter?  I wonder if over-write was moddeld 
that device?

Carl Karsten