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Given that even Apple not only keeps the Caps key, but also has it traditionally big, I suppose the market demands it. But then who are those people who uses it
by _0w8t 5y ago
Given that even Apple not only keeps the Caps key, but also has it traditionally big, I suppose the market demands it. But then who are those people who uses it?
- thinkling 5y agoSome of us use it a lot because we remap it to be the meta key. grin
- masklinn 5y agoOr Ctrl. Props to Apple, which in 2022 still provides an easy option to remap caps more or less straight in the keyboard configuration. And actually provides that even on iOS (which I was stoked to discover), though the remapping options are limited. And boo to microsoft, the only significant OS where that’s not a native option, you need the powertoys and in my experience it’s quite unreliable: regularly capslock will revert and you have to go into the ‘toys and flip it off and on again. I’ve never looked but I guess it’s some sort of registry setting which every update resets, without the ‘toys being aware of the info?
- cerved 5y agoThat's why I remap pause to caps lock. It's unfortunate. At least it works for things running as admin now
- d21d3q 5y agoI met two persons who were using caps lock instead of shift during regular typing - for each capital letter: CL, some letter, CL.
- BenjiWiebe 5y agoAssuming they were on Windows, someone should teach them about Sticky Keys. You press shift once and then the next key you press is capitalized (or a symbol or whatever).
- klez 5y agoI use caps lock very often, because when touch-typing it's A LOT EASIER than keeping changing the finger I use to press Shift on the correct side of the keyboard. And if you think "well, just keep shift pressed and use another finger to type what you would have typed with your pinky" it just means you're either not touch typing or doing it "wrong" :) There's a reason there are two shift keys on a keyboard, yet I rarely hear people complaining about this but plenty complain about the "useless" caps lock. TL;DR: you can pry caps lock from my cold dead hands. I need it. (ETA: maybe I should just remap double-shift to caps and be done with it, but that's just one more thing I have to learn and one more configuration I need to do on a new machine).
- _0w8t 5y agoWhat about using sticky Shift? It will also work for symbols while touch-typing.
- klez 5y agoThe thing is: I don't have a problem with my current layout (and, as I said, adding sticky shift is one more thing to configure on new machines or after a OS reinstall). Also, I've been using that key for its original purpose for some 25 years. I don't see myself learning that again too easily. But I might try to see if it sticks (pun not intended). What surprises me are people who consider a certain key "useless" simply because they don't use it, so it should be removed/reassigned. And there's plenty of them in this thread who think that I'm doing it wrong by using the key for the exact job it was meant for.
- _0w8t 5y agoI must admit I was among those people. I have not seen anybody using it. But then most people I have seen typing or discussing Caps are not touch-typist.