![]() The key was often maligned as unnecessary and more likely to be accidentally than intentionally activated. ![]() Originally an insert key was provided in the typewriter key block beside a delete key both have been removed in favor of a double-sized ' backspace key'. On modern keyboards, the Insert key is only present on the control block between the typewriter keys and the numeric keypad. On early text-based computing environments and terminals, when the cursor is in overtype mode, it was represented as a block that surrounded the entire letter to be overstruck when in insert mode, the cursor consisted of the vertical bar that is highly common among modern applications, or a blinking underline under the position where a new character would be inserted. The insert/overtype mode toggling is not global for the computer or even for a single application but rather local to the text input window in which the Insert key was pressed. insert mode, where the cursor inserts a character at its current position, forcing all characters past it one position further. ![]()
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