Non_Insert Mode in EMACS

I saw this question posted once before, but I've never seen the answer.  Does 
anyone know how to turn the insert mode off in EMACS?  Without typeover it
makes drawing a pain!
					- Lars

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lli...@icogsci5.ucsd.edu (Lars Liden) writes:

 LL> I saw this question posted once before, but I've never seen the
 LL> answer.  Does anyone know how to turn the insert mode off in
 LL> EMACS?  Without typeover it makes drawing a pain!  - Lars

overwrite-mode:
Toggle overwrite mode.
With arg, turn overwrite mode on iff arg is positive.
In overwrite mode, printing characters typed in replace existing text
on a one-for-one basis, rather than pushing it to the right.  At the
end of a line, such characters extend the line.  Before a tab,
such characters insert until the tab is filled in.
C-q still inserts characters in overwrite mode; this
is supposed to make it easier to insert characters when necessary.



Normally bound to Insert, but you can always use M-x overwrite-mode.


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