From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Small Computer Editors/Insert mode Article-I.D.: ucb.1394 Posted: Sun Jun 20 00:53:03 1982 Received: Mon Jun 21 05:23:44 1982 Reply-To: ople >From POURNE@MIT-MC Sun Jun 20 00:51:11 1982 WRITE is even more interesting: it has ^F as a toggle between insert and writeover; also ^G which opens a hole in the text (everything to the right of the cursor drops down a line to stay there until you hit ^G again to close it up). While in ^F mode, you have all the usual commands. You can also get to ^F mode automagically; just type past the end of a line and you're in it (so you cannot write over the line below unless you wanted to).