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
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