[mdlug] Campaign to retire the Caps Lock key

Peter Bart peter at petertheplumber.net
Sun Dec 3 11:17:48 EST 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 10:58 -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> 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.

	I'm glad you didn't do that on my machine ;-), that would send me into
a spiral of doom.

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Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
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