Re: Caps-mode vs. Overwrite mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:47:03 -0400
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> When I toggle caps-mode on, overwrite mode stops working.
> >> That is, inserted characters insert instead of overwriting.
> >> Any hints?
> >
> > The caps-mode.el that's in GNU ELPA shouldn't suffer from this
> > problem, AFAIK.
> 
> My first search only turns up caps-lock.el?
> 
> Works better than caps-mode, but does type lower case
> when the shift key is used.  I can live with that I think,
> might even learn to like it.

How do you even get caps-mode to work?  If I type any self-inserting
character after turning on caps-mode, I get an error:

  insert-char: Symbol's value as variable is void: last-command-char