Text entered at the keyboard is inserted into the buffer. In overwrite mode, which can be toggled by pressing INSERT
, one character is deleted from in
front of the caret position for every character that is inserted. The caret is
drawn as horizontal line while overwrite
mode is active. The status bar also indicates if overwrite mode is active; see
the section called “The Status Bar” for details.
Inserting text while there is a selection will replace the selection with the inserted text.
When inserting text, the TAB
and
ENTER
keys might
not behave entirely like you expect because of various indentation
features; see the section called “Tabbing and Indentation” for details.
The simplest way to delete text is with the
BACKSPACE
and DELETE
keys. If nothing is
selected, they delete the character before or after the caret,
respectively. If a selection exists, both delete the
selection.
More advanced deletion commands are described in the section called “Working With Words”, the section called “Working With Lines” and the section called “Working With Paragraphs”.