Re: Workaround (Binswanger)

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≪	Which raises a new issue I'd like to hear user's views on: under
what circumstances is overwrite valuable? I, and most others apparently,
NEVER use it. ≫

Harry: Simply a matter of personal preference, I think.

Do you touch type? My hunch is that hunt&peck typists are more
comfortable in insert and touch typists prefer overstrike. The first
computer system I used, pre-PCs, treated overstrike as more than a
default. To insert even one char required entering a mode where the
display yawned as when a lb command is issued from the xyWrite
CMline, so I was conditioned to work in overstrike by the time word
processors came along.

≪	Are we missing out on something? ≫

Seems to me that working in insert would add keystrokes: Replacing a char
requires deleting or backspacing as well as striking the new char's key.
If the default is overstrike, toggling the Ins key as necesssary is more
mindless. Why do you infer that others don't work in overstrike? 	--a

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