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Elaine Lin
Elaine Lin

Reputation: 541

Visual Studio Permanently Disable Overwrite

I have a minor annoyance with Visual Studio. In the bottom right hand corner of Visual Studio, there is a INS/OVR button to toggle Insert/Overwrite. I always have this button set to INS, and I always want it to be set to INS.

However, sometimes when I build the solution, Visual Studio changes this back to OVR. I have to click on the button to change it back to INS, which is slightly inconvenient.

I do not know why this setting sometimes changes. Is there anyway I can permanently disable the overwrite mode in Visual Studio or prevent solution builds from changing this setting?

Upvotes: 29

Views: 50535

Answers (5)

Deepak Verma
Deepak Verma

Reputation: 1

search keyboard shortcuts in VS code then look for ** workbench.action.quickOpenWithModes ** set Insert key for this as earlier it was set to Numpad0 key

I hope this will resolve your issue

or you can also search what functionality is going with any particular key and you can also edit your shortcut keys as per your need

Upvotes: -1

ForceVII
ForceVII

Reputation: 393

Sometimes visual studio wont disable overtype even if you hit insert with numlock on, If this happens just close script and open it again and it will work. This is a bug in visual studio.

Upvotes: 1

chickfeet08
chickfeet08

Reputation: 7

Go to Visual Studio Code's settings and type "overtype" in the search bar, and set it to 'never'.

Hope this helped! :)

Upvotes: -2

Chase Florell
Chase Florell

Reputation: 47427

Visual Studio, Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard, remove the shortcut binding for Edit.OvertypeMode

Upvotes: 80

Emmett Lin
Emmett Lin

Reputation: 665

I don't think you can permanently turn insert/overwrite off. Are you accidentally pressing insert on your keyboard? You can press the insert key on your keyboard or Shift+0 on the numpad to toggle it back again.

Upvotes: 20

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