Visual Studio Permanently Disable Overwrite

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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?

score 67 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '17 at 15:37

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

answered Jun 26 '17 at 15:37

Chase Florell

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The answer to the question and highly recommended ! – AlainD Jul 03 '20 at 10:28
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This should be marked as the correct answer – juanchavezlive Dec 25 '20 at 21:36
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Works when keyboards do not have in INS key (e.g. apple keyboards) Works in latest VS2019 layout which does not have a INS/ORV button. Allows for a permanent Fix. – Stephanie Oct 06 '21 at 06:07
Thanks. But VS UI in Chinese doesn't allow search in English names. I'm still struggling to find its UI name in Chinese. OK got - it's "编辑.改写模式" – Dahan Gong Jul 28 '22 at 02:26

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '15 at 16:07

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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.

answered Jul 01 '15 at 16:07

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It appears that I was just accidentally pressing the Insert key on the keyboard when trying to backspace. – Elaine Lin Jul 17 '15 at 22:46
make sure your numlock is on :) – RBZ May 12 '20 at 19:21
@elaine-lin I don't think you are, at least not always—it happens to me too from time to time, and I have the insert key disabled in my Logitech preferences. And it's annoying as hell to switch off overwrite this way because I always have to go into the Logitech preferences and switch the insert key *on* just to disable it. Ugh. I did now set a special, complicated (not easy to accidentally press) shortcut as per Chase Florell's answer below to disable it, but this has to be a bug in VS, it happens nowhere else. – Johann Studanski Jun 24 '20 at 11:43
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Shift+0 (zero) worked for me; I'm using a Mac keyboard and double-clicking "OVR" did nothing. See Chase Florell's answer below to remove the shortcut bindings that allow you to accidentally turn on overwrite mode. – Jaja Harris Jul 13 '21 at 22:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '22 at 10:14

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

Hope this helped! :)

answered Jul 24 '22 at 10:14

chickfeet08

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Its not visual studio code, its visual studio – ForceVII Jul 25 '22 at 07:58
This answer is not correct for current builds of Visual Studio Code. Works for Visual Studio Community Edition. Please clarify. – Prophet Lamb Aug 01 '22 at 12:02

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 25 '22 at 08:24

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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.

answered Jul 25 '22 at 08:24

ForceVII

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