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Does nobody use the Caps Lock key as a caps lock? Pretty useful for that.
by dima55 13y ago
Does nobody use the Caps Lock key as a caps lock? Pretty useful for that.
- eru 13y agoLots of people have no need for locked caps.
- jrockway 13y agoBUT IT MAKES SARCASTIC COMMENTS SO EASY TO WRITE.
- paulnechifor 13y ago“Angry” languages aren't used much anymore (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC), so there is no need for Caps Lock.
- dima55 13y agoI guess, but do you still not have a use for it? What if you're talking to git and referring to HEAD? Or if you're #defining things in C? Or if you're writing an email and you want to emphasize a few words?
- IsTom 13y agoI hold left shift with my pinky or right shift with my thumb. Unless I do a lot of all-caps typing it's not a problem.
- tokenrove 13y agoAny reasonable text editor will have more efficient ways to capitalize things than dedicating one of the most convenient keys on the keyboard to it. I prefer M-u (by word) or C-x C-u (by region) in emacs.
- aidenn0 13y agoInteresting enough, all of the standard library for Common Lisp is in caps. However, the default reader upcases all unescaped characters. A somewhat common way of getting case sensitivity without (CONS (CAR x) (CDR y)) is to change the reader to be case-inverting (which then requires you to type in all standard-library symbols as lowercase.
- clarry 13y agoIf someone's editor has got a convenient way to capitalize parts after they've been written, I'd be interested in knowing how it works. You can invert case with ~ in vi, but it's not so great for #defines and such (you capitalize every letter in these, and ~ works on a letter at a time).
- rbonvall 13y agoVim provides operators for changing case: gu for lower case, gU for upper case and g~ for swapping case. For example, gUaw changes the current word to upper case. guu changes the whole current line to lower case. In visual mode, you can use just u and U. Bonus useless tip: g? encodes and decodes rot13.
- clarry 13y agoThanks, I guess that explains why gg is needed to go to top. In my editor it's just g. Maybe I'll come up with something clever.
- albedoa 13y agoTilde can be used as an operator in Vim, so typing ~w will change the case from the cursor to the end of the (w)ord :)
- rm445 13y agoI'm no Vim wizard, but don't most of the commands work like that? You could type e.g. 6~ to change the case of 6 letters at once.
- bluedino 13y agoWe have entire departments that use it almost all day long. Then again, we could probably fix that by having auto-capitalizing fields, but you know you're talking to someone in IM/Email that uses caps all day, when they reply in caps. ANYWHERE FOR LUNCH IS FINE LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU WANT TO LEAVE
- freehunter 13y agoYeah, every time this subject is brought up, I think to myself that I must be the only one who actually uses caps lock for its intended purpose. I spend a lot of my day writing capital letters at work, and having to use shift for every letter would kill me. Instead I can hit caps lock then start typing like normal.