[FEATURE][USABILITY] Switching between INS/OVR mode in QOwnNotes

[nalsuriv]

[FEATURE][USABILITY] Switching between INS/OVR mode in QOwnNotes

[pbek]

In Kate it's called "Overwrite Mode", but I haven't researched how they are doing it in a QPlainTextEdit.

[pbek]

QOwnNotes uses a QPlainTextEdit and there is just https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qplaintextedit.html#overwriteMode-prop, that can be utilized, so I'll use that.

[pbek]

Great, thank you for testing!

[pbek]

And doing that in QOwnNotes will clash with the cursor width setting. So if someone would implement that in QOwnNotes, extra attention would need to be paid to that setting.

[nalsuriv]

Having grepped through the Kate sources, there is no such thing as "QPlainTextEdit". There is, however, a class named "QTextEdit". Also, as far as I can tell, there is no explicitly defined cursor width for the overwrite mode, which leads me to believe it gets redefined not within the editor itself, but within some underlying Qt library. That would mean that no matter the width of the character-to-be-replaced, the cursor width adjusts automatically so as to underline all of it (which can be proven by feeding the editor a mix of single-width characters (letters and numbers) and double-width characters (Kanji, CJK)).

[pbek]

24.5.9

• When you now press Insert, in the note text edit, overwrite mode will be toggled
  to directly allow overwriting the current text (for #3034)

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[nalsuriv]

Works as intended, thank you! Closing the issue as resolved.