On 19/09/2005, at 14.46, Gavin Kistner wrote:
I agree... and what is overwrite mode good for anyway, by the way? :-p.
ASCII diagrams or anal-retentive-attention-to-cosmetic-formatting are the only cases I've ever used it for. The only sort of case where I can imagine combining overwrite mode with auto-complete would be a case like this: [...]
Yes, it's rare, but very nice when data is in columns and you need to edit one, or sometimes when you duplicate a print statement, and want to overwrite the leading part, but keep the padding so that the trailing stuff is at the same position (a tad like columns, and a tad like the comment example).
Autocomplete should overwrite while in overwrite mode (and so should paste really, though I wasn't sure initially) -- that said, I can't give any ETA on these things, but I may look at it later today.