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- From: d90-awe@kai.nada.kth.se (Assar Westerlund)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: Re: quoted-insert inserts in overwrite-mode
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:59:30 -0500
- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lines: 20
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <D90-AWE.93Jan26130352@kai.nada.kth.se>
- References: d90-awe@kai.nada.kth.se (Assar Westerlund)
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- In article <1jpr8eINNg1o@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- The answer to this whole issue seems to be that there's no one right
- answer. Perhaps an option variable would be appropriate.
-
- Right. But my opinion is that quoted-insert should overwrite in
- overwrite-mode. An option variable should be fine by me.
-
- ...
-
- This makes me wonder why anyone would use quoted-insert in overwrite mode
- in the first place.
-
- As it was I who started this thread I can answer that one. I was
- editing a binary file and wanted to write a 0 in a string.
-
- Assar d90-awe@nada.kth.se
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