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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: typeover in emacs
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Date: 28 Jul 90 00:58:03 GMT
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>		Is there any to change from inserting to typeover?
>Jennifer

M-xoverwrite-mode

overwrite-mode:
Toggle overwrite mode.
With arg, turn overwrite mode on iff arg is positive.
In overwrite mode, printing characters typed in replace existing text
on a one-for-one basis, rather than pushing it to the right.

Of course you COULD bind it to some key sequence...
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