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.
Is there a way to edit text, removing anything from parts of a word to even complete phrases, and then entering anything from a new bit (of a word) to possibly even paragraphs (if not even more) without 'writing over' the remaining previous text?
(Have I explained this badly - - - I hope not!)
TIA
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.
Cheers Lex
Is there a way to edit text, removing anything from parts of a word to even complete phrases, and then entering anything from a new bit (of a word) to possibly even paragraphs (if not even more) without 'writing over' the remaining previous text?
(Have I explained this badly - - - I hope not!)
TIA _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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
On Friday, April 09, 2021 08:10:42 AM o1bigtenor wrote:
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.
It sounds to me like you're in overtype mode instead of insert mode. Look for the <Insert> key on your keyboard and press that -- it toggles between overtype and insert mode.