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I don't understand how caps lock has been able to maintain it's prized real estate for so long. I understand the inertia behind why hardware manufacturers are
by throw_away 15y ago
I don't understand how caps lock has been able to maintain it's prized real estate for so long. I understand the inertia behind why hardware manufacturers are loath to move it, I just don't get why there are still otherwise reasonable people who don't remap it. I map mine to control and also use some of the lesser known C- combo replacements (C-h = backspace, C-[ = escape). I'm a vim user, so dvorak is a bit of a non-starter (hjkl gets all goofed, and once you try to un-goof it, you goof up other commands).
- samatman 15y agoMy CapsLock got fired a long time ago and is now a backspace-delete key. One of these days, I plan to finish the job and turn my 'delete' key into a proper forward delete, which my laptop keyboard lacks.
- ScottBurson 15y agoI used to remap CapsLock to Backspace, but gave up because I had one machine -- a 1998 PowerBook (this was obviously before OSX) -- on which I didn't know how to remap it, and changing back and forth was a pain. Once I got used to Backspace in the upper right corner, I no longer had much motivation to change back again. And I don't bother remapping CapsLock to Control because I already have two Control keys. Also, on most full-size keyboards, I swap around the modifiers so that I can press the Control and Alt keys with the sides of my palms. This works very well. (I put Control on the inside and Alt on the outside, the reverse of the usual PC layout.) So while I don't consider the standard position of CapsLock to be ideal, in the end it hasn't proven worth the trouble to move it.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoMy favorite Caps Lock rant: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.peeves/browse_thread/thread/5abd6c108aec2a86 http://groups.google.com/group/alt.peeves/browse_thread/thre...