Re: idea for the Insert/Overwrite problem

From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 15:37:10 CEST

On 10/18/06, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:42 +0200, Robert Staudinger wrote:
> > On 9/5/06, Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Any proposed change (even something as "benign" as a dialog box
> > > preference or having to press the key twice) breaks with how the INS
> > > key works in all other apps and all other OSes.
> >
> > FYI, this is how new Microsoft Word is said to handle it:
> > http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2006/07/insert_key_safe.html
> >
> > (Don't really care myself, so please don't read it as me taking side
> > in the discussion)
>
> If we had something like the about:config option (ie, a tree of all
> options, also the ones that currently can only be set in the
> abiword.profile), this might not be a bad idea.

Seems like gconf[-editor] and $expletive might fill that role on
gtk/gnome and win32 respectively. No idea about OS X.

- Rob
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