Re: Cursor Terminology and Shape (was Re: Red cursor)

On Sunday 03 Apr 2005 17:10, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Many of the software products I use use an I-beam and a box, which seem
> very intuitive to me.  The I-beam is displayed between characters and
> indicates the next character will be inserted between those characters.
>  The box, sometimes a backlit type solid thingie and sometimes a hollow
> outline (nedit), "highlights" a character, and indicates that the next
> character typed will replace that character.  Do others find that as
> intuitive as I do?

Once I'd had the red line, (caret) explained to me and had stopped trying
to get AbiWord into 'insert' mode using 'i' as in VI, and had a long look
at the key-board, meanwhile sopme kind soul pointed out the 'insert' key
to me which on my key-board is indeed marked 'insert'. I did indeed find
it, as you put it 'intuititve. The trouble was I didn't realise that my
finger had caught the 'insert' key when using the delete key. I'm quite
happy with the black or red caret, indeed that is what my email composer
uses, except on occasions that too will go into 'overwrite' mode, and
other than restarting it, I've never known how that works either!

-- 
John Seago
GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org
AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/
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