overwrite mode

[blackshadev]

Are there any plans for adding an overwrite mode (toggled by the insert key).

Most editors do have them so I was quite surprised monaco (and thus VSCode) doesn't.

[jamilraichouni]

Must have. This is an absolutely common functionality of an editor.

[addictgamer]

I second this.

Thanks

[nic-hartley]

+1 for this, please add it. It's a niche feature, but incredibly useful where it's used.

[vocoder]

+1

[RazorPhaser]

+1
Niche feature?!?! Name one text editor that doesn't allow for insert overwriting. The lack of this common core functionality makes using VSCode extremely annoying.

[alexbarten]

I would like to see some consistency between Visual Studio (or other editors) and VSCode in this regard. Also, when editing Markdown tables (or .feature files), using the insert key how it should be used makes any programmer's life a lot easier.
It is for a reason that this key is available on any non-Mac keyboard (and we can't trust Apple, the company that claimed that we did not need copy-paste on a phone).

[hilari0n]

@alexdima:
I'm not sure why this was moved from microsoft/monaco-editor to microsoft/vscode.
Vscode already had this issue reported (#1012), and it was explained there, that implementing this in vscode is a problem due to the monaco editor limitation. And the monaco-editor repo READ.me says:

Create issues in this repository for anything related to the Monaco Editor.

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[hilari0n]

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Does anyone know if this means 20 new upvotes? Do the existing ones count?

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[nurbles]

Can the 238 votes from the original (FOUR YEAR OLD) report #1012 be added to this duplicate report?

Regardless, voting for the same issue AGAIN. Sigh.

[meustrus]

I'll upvote this to support the many others who have demanded this feature. But please, give some consideration to user training - VS Code should either provide extra visibility of the feature for at least the first time it's turned on (for new users that may have hit the key by accident and don't know what's going on), or turn off the ability to toggle overwrite mode be default.

Also, I will point out that a markdown formatter (like the one included in yzhang.markdown-all-in-one) is vastly superior to overwrite mode for editing ASCII tables because it works much better to grow and shrink column widths.

[mwpowellhtx]

I find this pretty funny, considering "most" editors worth their salt respond accordingly to the Insert key in overwrite mode.

[tig]

Shocked to discover INS doesn't work to toggle overwrite mode as expected. Shocked. Please fix.

[coder0xff]

@kburtram please close this as a duplicate of #1012

[cyraid]

I'll upvote this to support the many others who have demanded this feature. But please, give some consideration to user training - VS Code should either provide extra visibility of the feature for at least the first time it's turned on (for new users that may have hit the key by accident and don't know what's going on), or turn off the ability to toggle overwrite mode be default.

Also, I will point out that a markdown formatter (like the one included in yzhang.markdown-all-in-one) is vastly superior to overwrite mode for editing ASCII tables because it works much better to grow and shrink column widths.

Which non web editors don't support INS mode? In visual studio, jetbrains, I mean every other code editor I can think of supports INS overtype and some type of overtype mode yet I'm not aware of new users having an issue with that on those editors? Not meaning offense here but, I'm not sure those new users should be using any editor yet at this point if they're not aware of that.

... Even Windows Wordpad has overtype with INS key..

[alexdima]

Let's track in #1012