Toggle Insert/Overwrite Mode not working in "Editor"

Hi,

I notice that when I set a keyboard shortcut to "toggle Insert/Overwrite Mode" (as shown in attached screenshot), this is applied only to the Command Window and it does not work in the Editor (Matlab 2021b). I try to change the keyboard button but the issue remains :-(.

Could you help me to solve this issue? Have I turn on some additional options?

Thanks in advance...

All the best

Answer 1

[Reshma Nerella]

Hi,

From R2021b, "Toggle Insert/Overwrite Mode" shortcut only works for command window. That's why you are not able to use it in editor.

[Les Beckham]

Really???

This is a serious regression.

So how do we overwrite text in the editor?

[Andrea Zugna]

I'd like to bump this problem. Why has this feature been removed?

[z8080]

@Reshma Nerella: So you just give it to us straight like this?

Don't recall there being a user survey with the question "Should that pesky Insert/Overwrite mode finally be removed from the Editor?". Bet not many users would have answered YES to that!

[Junho Cho]

I need this function back...