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Re: Emulate Insert key on a Mac?

Of course U2 would have it. Thanks, Carl! 

And thanks Prof. Mendelson--surprising that Apple didn't allow some backdoor way to do it. 

Meanwhile, back in the list archives of Holmgren.org, I found this from Dan Kanagy in 1995:

I don't know if this will work with XyWin but you can accomplish
this task with XyDos 4.0 by selecting the text and entering
SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+C. SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+M will move the selected text
to the command line. And
SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+? will bring up a screen of the different
SHIFT+CTRL+ALT options.

No Insert necessary--though I prefer  the power of CHDF. 

Jon Pareles 



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From: Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Emulate Insert key on a Mac?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 08:16:43 -0400

I’ve never found a way to emulate the Ins key on a Mac. On my vDosWPMac system I supply a WordPerfect macro that toggles Typeover mode, and I suggest that users assign that macro to a key. I suppose XyWrite has a command that switches or toggles Typeover mode; the best thing would seem to be to assign that macro to a keystroke in Xy. But maybe I’m wrong about this?


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From: "Carl Distefano" <cld@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Emulate Insert key on a Mac?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 11:17:54 -0400

Reply to note from Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Wed, 5 Aug 2020
08:16:43 -0400

> I suppose XyWrite has a command that switches or toggles Typeover
> mode

XyWrite has an embarrassment of riches in this regard -- no fewer than
six functions which can be assigned in the keyboard file.

CI = Switch to Overstrike mode (from Insert).
MI = Switch from Overstrike to Insert until a cursor key is pressed.
SI = Switch to Insert mode (from Overstrike).
TI = Toggle between Insert and the active Overstrike mode.
TO = Toggle between Overstrike and Insert mode.
TW = Switch between Insert mode and Word Overstrike mode.

Since I never use Overstrike mode, I haven't experimented enough to
become familiar with the nuanced differences among these functions. I
simply assign SI to the Insert key to guard against toggling Overstrike
by mistake.

--
Carl Distefano


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From: "Carl Distefano" <cld@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Emulate Insert key on a Mac?
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 14:04:12 -0400

Reply to note from "Jon P" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted
sender "xywrite4" for DMARC) Tue, 4 Aug 2020 23:28:14 +0000 (UTC)

> Every so often I want to do a global CHange from something with
> Apple text encoding that shows up in XY4 as numbers and non-
> standard characters. In Windows I could Clip it, hit CTRL-SHIFT-
> INSERT and then (IIRC) SHIFT-INSERT to drop it on the command
> line, so CH /266^Ï€Â{174}/"/ was easy.

Jon, if you're running Xy4 + U2, there's an easy way to handle this.
Just DeFine the non-standard characters and command CHDF "<Helpkey>.
(No need to bother with /// separators, and no need to transfer the
funny chars to the CMline; U2 handles that internally.) And CHDF/T
would make the changes over the entire file without the need to move
the cursor up to top of file first.

--
Carl Distefano