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The key that promises to add things but mostly just toggles chaos in old text editors.
means To put something in between other things, or to add it into an existing space.
from From Latin inserere — 'in-' (into) plus 'serere' (to join, link, or weave) — the same 'serere' that gives us 'series.' So an insertion is literally a weaving-in, not just a shove.
- keyboard legacy
- Survives only because deleting it felt risky
- overwrite mode
- Its evil twin nobody asked for
- default state
- Most software disabled it and never looked back