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I accidentally hit the insert key so often that I put some code in my .emacs to disable the overwrite-mode key binding:
(define-key global-map [(insert)] nil)
(define-key global-map [(control insert)] 'overwrite-mode)
This works fine when using emacs within X. However, when I run emacs in the terminal (with -nw or over ssh), insert still turns on overwrite mode.
How can I bind insert in a terminal?
Turns out that I needed to redefine the key binding for insertchar as opposed to just insert. This means adding
(define-key global-map [(insertchar)] nil)
to .emacs.
C-h k <insert> in a terminal would give you the key description <insertchar> and therefore you could use (kbd "<insertchar>") in your define-key call. C-h k always gives you a key sequence string that you can plug into kbd.