Just gonna repeat what I said on mastodon:

@zep
I just had what MIGHT be a good idea. Emphasis on "MIGHT".

Currently PICO-8 does not honor the concept of insert/overwrite mode like DOS used to. Indeed, many programs don't.

How about using the [Ins] key to toggle puny mode?

This post was brought to you by People Like You and Me Who Hate Doing Ctrl-key Sequences™.

Also it'd be nice if you followed this common PC editor convention so I won't need to fake it with AutoHotKey:

shift-del = cut
shift-Ins = paste
ctrl-ins   = copy

So much easier to use on the fly. I learned this and never went back to ctrl-x/c/v.

If we're going to go this route I would also like to be able to use the arrow keys as well as DEL key in code edit to navigate using the number keypad with num-lock turned off.

A single keystroke to flip between normal and puny mode is also desirable as @Felice suggested. Gold star to support.

@dw817

I use a "tenkeyless" keyboard without a numberpad, so I didn't realize that PICO-8 might not observe numlock state. Does it really not? If not, I agree, that should also be supported.

Likewise in Picotro, @zep.

Yep, @Felice. It does not work. Never did in the first Pico-8 I had at v01.12c either.

That was listed with my huge selection of requests, you remember. :)

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=35330

And while I wrote that years ago I still think there are some gem ideas in there for today.