a feature of the CRT that allows the operator to temporarily cancel the strikeover capability of the video terminal keys, and to type additional characters between existing characters.
In most NLEs, a method of editing in the timeline that allows the placement of a shot between two shots without covering up what’s already there. Instead, the second shot (and all the shots following it) move down to accomodate the new shot. (See also overwrite mode.)
A data entry mode in which each new character you enter is inserted at the terminal's display cursor, pushing the following characters to the right. The opposite of replace mode.
(n.) A mode in which text is added to a document or command line at the current cursor position, pushing all characters to the right, rather than overwriting them. For example, the command switches the vi program to insert mode.
under Vi or one of its clones, it is the state of the program in which pressing a key will insert that character in the file being edited (except pathological cases like the completion of an abbreviation, right justify at the end of the line, ...). One gets out of it pressing the key Esc (or Ctrl-[).
During element manipulation within a segment, insert mode is the default mode. Thus, elements will be added to, rather than replace, the other elements in the open segment. Contrast replace mode.
A video editing approach that uses a tape containing only a control track onto which segments from one or more other tapes are recorded. By not transferring a control track with each edit (as in the case of assembly editing) a more stable picture results.
The mode of operation where you can edit a document.
(1.) A keyboard operation that puts new text within existing text at the cursor position. (2.) The source entry utility operation during which source statements are typed in and added as new records in a source member. (3.) In the Token-Ring Network, to make an attaching device an active part of a ring.
When you type text into the Article Window in Insert mode, the new text is inserted at the cursor location. Also see Overwrite Mode. You can toggle between Insert and Overwrite modes by pressing the Ins key.
Insert mode is the mode within vi where text is inserted into the document.
