Re: Overtype is there such a thing?

[LuKreme]

Wouho Otus spake on Thursday 20-Dec-2012@03:02:09
> Is there an overtype option for BBEdit?

Select the text you want to overtype and type the new text.

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[Fritz Anderson]

On 20 Dec 2012, at 3:36 PM, LuKreme <kre...@kreme.com> wrote:

> Wouho Otus spake on Thursday 20-Dec-2012@03:02:09
>> Is there an overtype option for BBEdit?
>
> Select the text you want to overtype and type the new text.
>
> ?

The OP is thinking of the ability to take a line that is, say, in the format of a FORTRAN card, click in the line-number field, and type a new number over the existing contents without spoiling the column alignment of the rest of the line. I wouldn't use it, but it's not a crazy requirement. I know TextMate has an overtype mode (which is distressingly easy to get into accidentally), and I'm sure others do, too.

I know of no such mode, and no obvious search of the BBEdit manual turns it up. Unless this is another of those features that have been in the app for twenty years and nobody noticed.

— F

[Doug McNutt]

Another, once common, feature was the ability to send "letter O, backspace, slash" and expect to see a phi.

There is also the possibility of sending a carriage return without a line feed followed by a second line of type, which might be some underline characters, and a line feed.

bbedit doesn't understand either one. It's a bit like talking to a teenager about WW II (or FORTRAN).

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[Patrick Woolsey]

At 02:02 -0800 12/20/2012, Wouho Otus wrote:
>Is there an overtype option for BBEdit?
>

Sorry; BBEdit does not have an overstrike mode.


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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[Tom Robinson]

When I asked about adding an overtype mode a long time ago (to TextWrangler?), I was left with no uncertainty that's it's a path Bare Bones won't be going down :-)

Even in the SAS editor which supports it, I barely use it anymore--it's faster to realign columns after editing than go in & out of overtype mode.

Cheers