Re: insert/overwrite-mode toggle

[CarlC]

"Kevin Dziulko" <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.1035548430.6132.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Start emacs and go to the *scratch* buffer. Press Control-q. Now hit your
> insert key. You will see some weird characters, something like ^[[1~.
> Remember those characters.  Then in you .emacs file, put in a line like:
> (global-set-key "\e[1~" 'overwrite-mode)
> where the [1~ are the characters you remembered, minus the first ^[.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kevin
>

Thank you. This solved my problem.