What is the INSERT button on computer keybord for
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Topic: What is the INSERT button on computer keybord for
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: What is the INSERT button on computer keybord for
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 01:14
To me it is the most annoying knob to accidently touch, becouse it wipes out things infront of it, and it seems like a complete useless knob, but it probably has it usage in some areas that i`m not aware of, what are those areas. -------------  
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 01:44
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Back in the Stone Age (when DOS, CP/M and BSD roamed the Earth) we had to use the INS key in a lot of text editors like EDLIN and EX to edit a line of existing text. It was the only way to insert characters into an existing text string without erasing the whole thing and starting over. Your next question should be 'what's that SysRq key for'? ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 02:10
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Yup, use of the {INSERT} button to enter over-type mode does not have many practical uses but for me it is invaluable because I have to edit and change large tables of data in my working life. For example using combination of cut and paste and over-type mode I can create a binary table very quickly and easily from a single row of 0's: 0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010 1011 1100 1101 1110 1111 Then still in over-type mode I can very quickly run down one column changing every 0 to a 1 and every 1 to a 0: 0010 0011 0000 0001 0110 0111 0100 0101 1010 1011 1000 1001 1110 1111 1100 1101 That would be a lot harder to do in insert-mode. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 03:28
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I mostly use it in text editors to copy and paste (Shift+Insert & Ctrl+Insert) and to temporarily disable Vimperator when I need to use native Firefox shortcuts. Now WTF IS THE CAPS LOCK KEY FOR?!  |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 04:54
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Anyone with a mainframe background such as myself will have used the insert key. Now what's that weird key with a flag on for? |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: June 09 2016 at 09:51
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Vompatti wrote: