On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 7:22 AM Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 22:11, o1bigtenor o1bigtenor@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings
Stumbled upon geany when looking for a plain text editor that had very strong AND intuitive search and replace functions and capabilities. Trusty vi just wasn't allowing my brain to wrap around any kind of technique and since finding geany - - - - well I've been using it for a number of years and don't see that changing - - - - - so many thanks for a wonderful product that I likely use only a tiny fraction of its tools or capabilities.
Ran into something and am not sure how to get around or fix.
Opened a previous document - - text - - created in Geany. Wanted to edit a few words by deleting them (using backspace key) and then desiring to type in the new word. What resulted was that the word was deleted but the insertion started overlapping the remaining previous text.
Check you have not accidentally gone into overtype mode (insert key on most keyboards) which shows as the cursor changing from a vertical bar to a fat underline and teh status bar INS becomes OVR. If so press insert again.
That must be what happened. My previous keyboard died and this one is close but not exactly the same so I'm likely fat fingered more than usual!
Thank you for your assistance!
Pace