Does it toggle? In some Windows processes, it does. Have you tried just pressing Insert again?
On 8 December 2012 11:25, Lunt, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is a question that has been puzzling me for years and I am finally > going to ask if there is help for me. :-) > > What happens is I will be typing at real TCL (on HP9000 Unix running SB+ > 5.2) and I will accidentally hit the 'Insert' key that it just to the > right of the 'Backspace' key. Well, after I do this my backspace will no > longer work. What I see on the screen when I enter the backspace key is > the letters to the left are displayed to the right of the cursor > preceded by a space. I can enter the replacement character(s) and they > will work but when I look at the line to check it the line will always > have: '*--:' appended to the end of the line. It does not matter what I > do after this to try to get back to what was working before. (I do > plenty of backspacing so this is not a small problem.) The only thing > that works is to logoff and then log back on. This will reset the editor > to work correctly again. I have tried hitting the 'Insert' key again, > thinking that it would switch back to the original mode, to no avail. > Has this happened to anyone else? Or am I the only lucky one with this > problem? If it has happened to you, do you have another fix besides > logging off the system? > > Thanks in advance, > > Bruce Lunt > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Kate Stanton Walstan Systems Ltd 4 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay, Auckland 1011, New Zealand Phone: + 64 9 360 5310 Mobile: + 64 21 400 486 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
