Dear PLUG, I'm trying to follow the instructions to swap my caps lock key and my crtl key as recommended by the web site effective-emacs, for the purpose of being an effective emacs user. The instructions are at
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs I think I did everything according to the directions. When I invoke emacs from the command line, it doesn't seem to have changed anything, i.e. when I hit caps lock, my text is in capitals. I expected it to act as the ctrl key. I tried logging out. I think I have xfce on debian. I don't know if that makes a difference. I logged back in through a dialog box. I tried shutting down the laptop completely, and rebooting. Did I miss a step? Furthermore, and for bonus, please allay my angst over not being able to follow linux directions!! victor@claudius:~$ echo $HOME /home/victor victor@claudius:~$ ls -a . Documents lastButOne.hs .pulse-cookie .. Downloads .local quux.txt ABunchOfWriting .emacs.d .macromedia shortCircuit.hs ABunchOfWriting~ .fontconfig .mission-control shortCircuit.hs~ add.hs #foo# .mozilla sources.list .adobe .gconf Music .speech-dispatcher Assign.hs .ghc myDrop2.hs .ssh baby.hs .gksu.lock myDrop2.hs~ Templates baby.hs~ .gnash myDrop.hs .thumbnails .bash_history .gnome2 myDrop.hs~ Videos .bash_logout .gnome2_private myDropX.hs WC.hs .bash_profile .gnupg myLast.hs WC.hs~ .bashrc .gstreamer-0.10 myLast.hs~ .xmodmap .cache .gtk-bookmarks Pictures .xmodmap~ .config .gvfs .profile .xsession-errors .dbus .ICEauthority Public .xsession-errors.old Desktop lastButone~ .pulse victor@claudius:~$ cat .xmodmap ! ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L ! remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L victor@claudius:~$ cat .bash_profile xmodmap ~/.xmodmap Thank you for your patience, understanding, and sympathy!! Sincerely, Victor Soich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
