The key itself — Caps Lock — I believe is useless, and occupies valuable real estate. The concept of caps lock, I'm undecided. As programmer, the most common a

The key itself — Caps Lock — I believe is useless, and occupies valuable real estate. The concept of caps lock, I'm undecided. As programmer, the most common arguments I hear are usually about the occasional use of it for say, C_IDENTIFIERS[1]. Or perhaps you want to scream, but not hold down shift. Who am I to judge? Some OSs support (in particular, I know Linux does) a thing called "two shift caps". If you want caps lock, you hit both shift keys simultaneously. Same thing to deactivate. Now, you still have your caps lock for those rare times when you want it, but the physical key is freed up for Control, or Escape, or whatever you fancy. I personally think it's a wonderful thing, and would love to see it catch on as standard, though I don't know if that'll ever happen. [1]: gU<movement> in vim helps a lot though.