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Re: (WWWOT)true shiftlock key?

by Albannach (Monsignor)
on Oct 15, 2001 at 06:08 UTC ( [id://118804]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (WWWOT)true shiftlock key?

You're definitely not alone, but on the other hand we may both be insane ;-)

<rant>
I've often cursed the CapsLock key (at least they don't try to pass it off as a shift lock when all it does is capitals). Frankly I think about 999 out of every 1000 times I (or nearly anyone) hits it it is unintentional (unless of course you re-define it as the Ctrl key as it should be), and I can't recall the last time I actually wanted to type so many sequential capital letters that CapsLock would have actually been useful. Geez, even on my PalmOS device I can toggle the case of already-typed text.

To go just a bit further, why do we have numbers above the keyboard anyway? Perhaps on crowded notebooks it makes sense, but every desktop keyboard I've seen for years had this really handy numeric keypad on the right (to the annoyance of some lefty friends of mine...). I bet more than 50% of my typing errors would vanish if I didn't have to hit shift for punctuation.
</rant>

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Re: Caps Lock
by thraxil (Prior) on Oct 15, 2001 at 06:32 UTC

    i agree that the placement of the capslock key is abysmally stupid (i've got mine remapped as control like it should be too).

    you probably already know this but someone might not and i remember going "oh yeah... that makes sense..." the first time someone explained to me the reason for its existence. the capslock key is for people who, for whatever reason -- arthritis, missing hand, etc -- aren't able to hit two keys at once. if you only have one finger and you want a capital G, you're going to have a hard time getting it with just a shift key; instead they can hit capslock, g, then capslock again.

    so there's my useless knowledge contribution of the day. enjoy.

    of course it really could have gone somewhere less annoying...

    anders pearson

Re: Re: (WWWOT)true shiftlock key?
by jynx (Priest) on Oct 15, 2001 at 09:05 UTC

    As far as the numbers above the qwerty keys, there are two reasons those are there AFAICT:
    1. History (the original typewriters didn't have keypads)
    2. Quickness (eight fingers can be faster than 2-4 at entering numbers)
    <rant>
    Unfortunately the numbers above the qwerty keys do me no good for quickness since i actually have fewer than 10 fingers, so i agree with you that they're an annoyance :)
    </rant>

    my $0.02,
    jynx

(jptxs) Re: (WWWOT)true shiftlock key?
by jptxs (Curate) on Oct 15, 2001 at 06:39 UTC
    I did one better than remap. I have a Sun Blade here for testing and I use the keyboard that came with it on my main linux machine (the only one I really use a keyboard on at all). That takes care of many of the silly PC things...

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