On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 22:11, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings > > Stumbled upon geany when looking for a plain text editor that had very > strong AND intuitive search and replace functions and capabilities. > Trusty vi just wasn't allowing my brain to wrap around any kind of > technique and since finding geany - - - - well I've been using it for > a number of years and don't see that changing - - - - - so many thanks > for a wonderful product that I likely use only a tiny fraction of its > tools or capabilities. > > Ran into something and am not sure how to get around or fix. > > Opened a previous document - - text - - created in Geany. > Wanted to edit a few words by deleting them (using backspace key) and > then desiring to type in the new word. What resulted was that the word > was deleted but the insertion started overlapping the remaining > previous text.
Check you have not accidentally gone into overtype mode (insert key on most keyboards) which shows as the cursor changing from a vertical bar to a fat underline and teh status bar INS becomes OVR. If so press insert again. Cheers Lex > > Is there a way to edit text, removing anything from parts of a word to > even complete phrases, and then entering anything from a new bit (of a > word) to possibly even paragraphs (if not even more) without 'writing > over' the remaining previous text? > > (Have I explained this badly - - - I hope not!) > > TIA > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
