[mdlug] Campaign to retire the Caps Lock key

[David Relson]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:36:09 -0500
M. D. Krauss wrote:

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> I think he meant what you meant :) but was saying that *although* he 
> also uses backspace a lot and agrees with you there, he still doesn't 
> want it moved somewhere he's not used to.
> 
> Me, I have caps-lock remapped to be ctrl, and the tilde-backtick (~
> and `)  key and Esc swapped.  Esc is probably not used as often as 
> backspace, but it's "standard" position is much less tolerable.  I
> WILL NOT USE a keyboard with a massive backwards-L-shaped Enter key,
> and the backslash-pipe key had better be right between backspace and
> enter. Perhaps, though, now I will swap backspace and backslash.
> 
> I kind of like the keyboards that have Spacebar cede half of it's
> area to a large Backspace, though I don't have enough experience with
> them to not be very thrown off by it.
> 
> > Whereas "Home" and "End", while useful, don't need to be readily
> > available.
> Home and End?  You mean Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Z?  I like them where they
> are. :-)

Spoken like a true emacs user :->  I hadn't paid attention, but I'm
fortunate that my Northgate keyboard has Ctrl next to A and Caps Lock
where it's out of my way.

David