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Just going to throw this out there because I haven’t seen it referenced much on HN, but as someone who spends 8+ hours a day in one flavor of AutoCAD or another

Just going to throw this out there because I haven’t seen it referenced much on HN, but as someone who spends 8+ hours a day in one flavor of AutoCAD or another I am constantly cycling between caps lock and standard. Nearly every modern plan set produced is done in all caps, and with nearly all standard office communication being done through email or slack switching from one to the other easily is really quite important to me and my colleagues.

Eji1700 4y ago
Even in cases like that (SQL is sometimes supposed to be all caps), it's pretty trivial to either make it all caps, or to throw caps on another layer and quickly access it. It might actually justify it's positional priority in your case if you're literally switching between CAD and normal communication a ton, but even then i suspect you wouldn't mind it somewhere else.
morsch 4y ago
Sounds like the software should auto capitalise those labels/annotations...
goosedragons 4y ago
This is like the one valid caps lock use case you hear about. Would having caps lock be somewhere near scroll lock be a bad thing even in your use case? For the vast majority of people and use cases it is a near pointless key in a prime spot. Even worse it USED to be that ctrl and caps lock were swapped on early Apple II, IBM PC keyboards but for some unknown reason IBM decided to swap em.
CarVac 4y ago
Just have shift on a thumb key so it's easy to hold when you need it.
elcapitan 4y ago
Layout software like Indesign simply uses a Standard/All Caps/Small Caps setting that you can apply to a style for this, why would you need to type it all in caps?
emacs28 4y ago
When in Emacs I use a custom command that converts lowercase underscore-separated words to uppercase after typing the word out in lowercase so I don't have to use shift or capslock.
daniel_reetz 4y ago
Numpad removal is similar. I'm a heavy CAD/spreadsheet user and I cannot live without a numpad, which is by far the fastest way to input numbers. Most DIY builds, its the first thing to be removed.

Eji1700 4y ago

Even in cases like that (SQL is sometimes supposed to be all caps), it's pretty trivial to either make it all caps, or to throw caps on another layer and quickly access it. It might actually justify it's positional priority in your case if you're literally switching between CAD and normal communication a ton, but even then i suspect you wouldn't mind it somewhere else.

morsch 4y ago

Sounds like the software should auto capitalise those labels/annotations...

goosedragons 4y ago

This is like the one valid caps lock use case you hear about. Would having caps lock be somewhere near scroll lock be a bad thing even in your use case? For the vast majority of people and use cases it is a near pointless key in a prime spot. Even worse it USED to be that ctrl and caps lock were swapped on early Apple II, IBM PC keyboards but for some unknown reason IBM decided to swap em.

CarVac 4y ago

Just have shift on a thumb key so it's easy to hold when you need it.

elcapitan 4y ago

Layout software like Indesign simply uses a Standard/All Caps/Small Caps setting that you can apply to a style for this, why would you need to type it all in caps?

emacs28 4y ago

When in Emacs I use a custom command that converts lowercase underscore-separated words to uppercase after typing the word out in lowercase so I don't have to use shift or capslock.

daniel_reetz 4y ago

Numpad removal is similar. I'm a heavy CAD/spreadsheet user and I cannot live without a numpad, which is by far the fastest way to input numbers. Most DIY builds, its the first thing to be removed.