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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 17 May 1994.
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TALK- emacs commands

TALK- emacs commands

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 17 May 1994
Marie Ziemer:
>does anyone know the emacs command
>for switching from insert mode
>to overwrite mode?

assuming you mean GNU Emacs version 18 or 19, this:
	M-x overwrite-mode RET
will toggle overwrite mode.  In version 19, this command is bound to
the "insert" key, if you have an insert key that Emacs knows about.

If you're doing ascii art, you may want to use picture mode instead,
which you can invoke with this:
	M-x edit-picture RET

If you plan on doing this often, you can bind this to some
keysequence, such as "C-c a" (a for ascii), by putting this:
	(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'picture-mode)
in your ".emacs" file.
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