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> It works especially well if you remap Caps to Escape. And Emacs users remap Caps to Ctrl. Nobody really likes Caps, it seems.
by derleth 15y ago
> It works especially well if you remap Caps to Escape.
And Emacs users remap Caps to Ctrl. Nobody really likes Caps, it seems.
- toyg 15y agoNo surprise there, it's just a legacy from typewriters after all. These days, unless you're doing data-entry or a lot of SQL, caps-lock is just wasting (a lot of) prime keyboard real estate -- on the home row, no less!
- statictype 15y agoSql is case insensitive isn't it?
- toyg 15y agoyeah, but for various (historical) reasons people like to DO IT ALL IN UPPERCASE TO DISTINGUISH LANGUAGE SYNTAX FROM "actual data". As usual, computer science is an embarrassment for the computer.