[climacs-devel] overwrite mode

[Robert Strandh]

Hello, 

Aleksandar Bakic writes:
 > 
 > Should there be a buffer primitive, e.g., update-buffer-object, for the
 > overwrite mode (instead of a pair delete-insert)? I suppose the overwrite mode
 > could be handled in the com-self-insert command: call update-object (marks are
 > unaffected) unless we are at the end of the buffer, in which case we call the
 > usual insert-object. Better ideas?

I would put it in base.lisp and make it a combination of (setf
buffer-object) and forward-mark. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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