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- From: michalj@fuw.EDU.PL (Michal Jankowski)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: Re: quoted-insert inserts in overwrite-mode
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:36:17 -0500
- Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
- Lines: 28
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <MICHALJ.93Jan24152435@ccfs1.fuw.edu.pl>
- References: michalj@fuw.EDU.PL (Michal Jankowski)
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- >>>>> On 19 Jan 1993 21:57:09 -0500, shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni) said:
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- Shankar> Well, strictly speaking, RMS is right: the documentation for
- Shankar> "quoted-insert" says:
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- Shankar> quoted-insert:
- Shankar> Read next input character and insert it.
- Shankar> Useful for inserting control characters.
- Shankar> You may also type up to 3 octal digits, to insert a character with that code
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- Shankar> That's "insert it", not "do whatever is appropriate with it according
- Shankar> to the minor-mode".
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- Well, the documentation for self-insert-command is similar:
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- self-insert-command:
- Insert this character. Prefix arg is repeat-count.
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- Yet self-insert-command does not insert in overwrite-mode.
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- Of course, RMS is right: this is a feature, because it was designed
- this way. Let's call it a misfeature. 8-)
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- Michal
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