[mdlug] Campaign to retire the Caps Lock key

[Jeremy Bowers]

gib at juno.com wrote:
> I've always though the caps lock key should act like it does on a
> typewriter.  Hitting the shift key will deactivate.
A few weeks ago I remapped Caps Lock to Backspace. It's been working 
well for me and I intend to keep it that way.

No amount of textual analysis can show that "Backspace" is a 
frequently-used key, so I think people overlook it.

If you want to try this, the key is to map Backspace to "nothing" so you 
actually have to use the new key. .xmodmap:

remove Lock    = Caps_Lock
keycode 0x16 =  NoSymbol        Terminate_Server
keycode 0x42 =  BackSpace

Also, emacs gets confused about del and needs

(normal-erase-is-backspace-mode 1)

in .emacs.