Fat Black Cursor Replacement and Stopping The Text Overwriting

[Vuk Pardic]

Hi,

        Would like to know if there is a way in Spyder that you can replace the black fat cursor with the regular line  which is always overwriting the existing text so when I make a small typo I am forced to delete the whole line up until that point.
Basically,I would like to have the regular texting line which when I would make a mistake would end in the position that I click on and would only delete the character that I select  and wont  ''eat'' the character and start the chain reaction of eating(deleting) text which would force   me to delete the line from the beginning.I have searched for this through the internet but have only found the solution for C and Java IDEs and I haven;t found anything similar for Spyder or any other iPython Environments.Hopefully someone would have an answer here....

  In hopes of quick reply,
    Vuk                                                           

[fchi...@gmail.com]

Hi Vuk,

If I understand your problem correctly, you need to press the "Insert" key to change the cursor behaviour between the "fat" cursor (that overwrites characters with the ones you type) and the "thin" cursor (that simply inserts new characters when you type). This is not really related to Spyder or Python, though; I believe any text editing software will present a similar behaviour regarding the "Insert" key.

Hope this helps,
Fabio