On 16/07/08 10:05, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:21:59 -0700
> Gautam Iyer<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If perhaps caps lock could be disabled automatically...
>
> I have never once in the last few years even felt a need to have a caps
> lock. It's a wonderfuly useful piece of plastic to press, bound to
> justabout the least useful behaviour I can possibly imagine.
>
> Most people seem to rebind it to some other function:
>
> * Escape [useful in vim]
>
> * Control [useful to avoid curling your fingers weirdly]
>
> * A new modifier; such as Super or Hyper
>
> I do the latter - all my window manager shortcuts use Hyper, which is
> bound to the Caps Lock key. This leaves all combinations of Ctrl and Alt
> untouched, meaning applications [such as (g)vim] can use them.
>
Well, when I have to type a long piece of uppercase text (such as the
official name of a Unicode codepoint in a keymap comment), I am quite
happy to have a CapsLock key: the usual convention is that official
Unicode codepoint names are printed in all caps, and something like
U+015D LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX or U+0625 ARABIC LETTER ALIF
WITH HAMZA BELOW (to give two typical examples which I actually used) is
a lot easier to type if I don't have to hold the Shift key down all the
way through.
But my keyboard's Caps Lock light is usually bright enough that I don't
fail to notice it, so once I have finished typing the string of capitals
I unset CapsLock.
Best regards,
Tony.
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