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Do people really not use caps lock? I use it every day, when I need to type more than one upper case character in a row. Like, every time I type NSString, not

by pfedor 14y ago

Do people really not use caps lock? I use it every day, when I need to type more than one upper case character in a row. Like, every time I type NSString, not to mention CLOCKS_PER_SEC.

ernesth 14y ago
Caps Lock is also the most simple way to input Ç, À or É with a french keyboard. Not everyone needs it though.
martinced 14y ago
It's better than that: several quality keyboards do not even come with a CAPS LOCK key anymore. For example if you're into quality switches, rated for 50 millions keypresses and providing a better tactile feedback than the typical $5 chinese mass-produced keyboard, you may want to shell out $250 to buy an Happy Hacking Pro 2 or a Realforce keyboard using Topre switches (you can have very good Cherry MX based boards for way less than that that said). Some of these keyboards, like the HHKB Pro 2, don't even have Caps Lock. They have Control in place of Caps Lock. So "Do people really not use caps lock?" is not the correct question. The correct question is: "Do programmers who touch-type and who spent time figuring out which keyboard switch they like really not use caps lock?" and then the answers becomes "yeah, most really don't use caps lock because Ctrl is so much more useful and so easier to use when it's located where caps lock typically is. To the point that companies building $$$ keyboard for that market don't even bother selling keyboard with caps lock" : ) "CLOCKS_PER_SEC" should be "CLO" and then auto-complete anyway. Regarding NSString, that's keypress, keyrelease (turning capslock on), 'n' 's' 's', keypress, keyrelease (turning capslock off). Doing it without capslock is keypress (shift), 'n' 's' 's', keyrelease. Which IMHO is faster but YMMV. People touch-typing are alternating Shifts when needed when typing all-caps or typing lowercase and uppercasing the whole word using some vi(m)/emacs magic shortcut anyway ; )
bdunbar 14y ago
I use caps lock, but I use 'ctrl' more often.

by pfedor 14y ago

Do people really not use caps lock? I use it every day, when I need to type more than one upper case character in a row. Like, every time I type NSString, not to mention CLOCKS_PER_SEC.

ernesth 14y ago

Caps Lock is also the most simple way to input Ç, À or É with a french keyboard. Not everyone needs it though.

martinced 14y ago

It's better than that: several quality keyboards do not even come with a CAPS LOCK key anymore. For example if you're into quality switches, rated for 50 millions keypresses and providing a better tactile feedback than the typical $5 chinese mass-produced keyboard, you may want to shell out $250 to buy an Happy Hacking Pro 2 or a Realforce keyboard using Topre switches (you can have very good Cherry MX based boards for way less than that that said). Some of these keyboards, like the HHKB Pro 2, don't even have Caps Lock. They have Control in place of Caps Lock. So "Do people really not use caps lock?" is not the correct question. The correct question is: "Do programmers who touch-type and who spent time figuring out which keyboard switch they like really not use caps lock?" and then the answers becomes "yeah, most really don't use caps lock because Ctrl is so much more useful and so easier to use when it's located where caps lock typically is. To the point that companies building $$$ keyboard for that market don't even bother selling keyboard with caps lock" : ) "CLOCKS_PER_SEC" should be "CLO" and then auto-complete anyway. Regarding NSString, that's keypress, keyrelease (turning capslock on), 'n' 's' 's', keypress, keyrelease (turning capslock off). Doing it without capslock is keypress (shift), 'n' 's' 's', keyrelease. Which IMHO is faster but YMMV. People touch-typing are alternating Shifts when needed when typing all-caps or typing lowercase and uppercasing the whole word using some vi(m)/emacs magic shortcut anyway ; )

bdunbar 14y ago

I use caps lock, but I use 'ctrl' more often.