Sublime Text detect overwrite mode

Question

I am trying to write a plugin to support a vim-like replace mode in Sublime. To accomplish this, there are a couple things that I need to be able to do:

1. enable/disable overwrite mode. (not toggle_overwrite).
2. detect if overwrite mode is enabled.

Item 2 is more important because I could always detect and toggle if necessary.

How can I detect if overwrite mode is enabled?

Answer 1

Even though the question is tagged "sublimetext2", I'll note that Sublime Text 3 does offer functions to do what you want:

view.set_overwrite_status(True) # Or False
view.overwrite_status()