On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:55:53 -0000 > From: Tomas Frydrych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: INS > > > Many times I have hit INS by accident together with the Backspace > key, and when at the end of a document this is rather hard to spot. > The INS indicator is only of limited value, because it requires that I > _consciously_ check which mode I am in (when I type I pay most of > my attention to either the text I am typing from or the text in the main > window; I suspect most of us who touch type are in the same boat). > > What I was going to suggest even before this thread started was to > use the same trick Emacs does and change the colour of the caret > in the OVER mode to a bright colour (bright red?). This would be > simple to implement, clearly noticeable, and unobtrusive. curses, skim reading sorry, i misread your suggestion. I am not sure how to handle colour changes in an accessible way and i would have to ask and expert. the suggestion Joaquin made was that the caret should change from | to [] (my ascii approximation of a block, which is techinically a cursor, iirc). Later Alan H.
