Is Caps Lock Dead? 1206
An anonymous reader asks "Recently I have noticed that I haven't used caps lock other for any purpose other than hitting it by accident. Once upon a time, COBOL was written in all caps, and other languages like BASIC and Fortran were not case sensitive. Capitals were the way to go for writing code. Does the caps lock key serve any purpose any more, and if not, should it be removed, moved, or replaced?"
It should be replaced... (Score:1, Funny)
thwart (Score:1, Funny)
eliminate capslock key
OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE (Score:4, Funny)
EASY IQ DETECTION (Score:2, Funny)
We should keep capslock (Score:5, Funny)
OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
Now now young man (Score:5, Funny)
for actually using a computer (writing documents?) (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:5, Funny)
IT HAS IT'S USES (Score:2, Funny)
And for getting denied a posting on slashdot.
Re:EASY IQ DETECTION (Score:5, Funny)
IT'S SPELLED MORANS, YOU DUMMY.
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Nigerian businessmen! (Score:1, Funny)
PLEASE, THINK OF THE CAPS LOCK
GOD BLESS.
blehblehblehbleh slashdot is moaning about yellllllllllllllllllling blah blah stupid thing.
Re:OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Changed since 2000? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:for actually using a computer (writing document (Score:5, Funny)
Yeesh, mate. Shift. SHIFT.
Re:for actually using a computer (writing document (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah I see it. You're surely not suggesting that you used the caps lock key for that little "N" are you? If you are then not on is that a truly awful example of why caps lock is useful, it also shows that you have no idea of how to efficiently use your keyboard.
it sould be replaced by.. (Score:2, Funny)
For Mac: a second mousebutton replacement key.
For Linux: play that anoying sound clip of linus pronoucing linux key.
Re:OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE (Score:2, Funny)
SEVEN SIXTEENTHS OF ONE INCH [xmission.com]
THAT'S THE DISTANCE YOU'D HAVE TO MOVE YOUR PINKY IN ORDER TO NOT SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT. I know the burden of pressing shift to capitalize is a great one, but c'mon Turing, you can do better than that. I used to type emails in caps like yours, but then I decided that I didn't want a job mixing concrete.
Re:OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:for actually using a computer (writing document (Score:5, Funny)
I appologize to Slashdot and to the "Shift Key" for any Confusion on my part.... again my bad.
in a pinch caps lock might work as a "ANY" key???
Re:Yes (Score:3, Funny)
I use it. (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, I'm developing an application right now that requires Caps Lock.
Press CAPS LOCK to proceed.
Press SCROLL LOCK to cancel.
Please don't take my CAPS away from me!
Nigerian business men (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OMG! (too much trouble) (Score:3, Funny)
I hate being told to "Power Cycle". It must be someplace in the Comcast tech-support handbook. But it gives me a good chuckle.
Re:Not everyone is a programer (Score:5, Funny)
They might as well have renamed it the 'RTFM' key.
hee (Score:2, Funny)
WTF!!! (Score:2, Funny)
(ok, maybe that's yet-another good reason)
Re:It should be replaced... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Slashdot,
Very recently, to my unimaginable surprise, I have noticed that I haven't used the tilde key for any purpose other than hitting it by accident. I know that once upon a time people were using the tilde key. They were using it like there was no tomorrow. I don't use it now, though, which makes me very sad. Does the tilde key serve any purpose any more? Does it still serve any purpose whatsoever? If not, will it ever serve a purpose? Will it ever make any sense? If not, should it be removed, moved, or replaced? If so, will we be able to see it in museum? What if later I find some use for this key, but it will have been gone long ago? What then? What will be the future of this little key? What, I ask?
Thank you very much, Slashdot, for your answer!
Sincerely,
Concerned reader.
P.S. I love reading Slashdot and especially the Ask Slashdot section, when people always ask so interesting questions! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! (Oh, God damn it! I used caps lock!)
Re:OF COURSE IT SERVES A PURPOSE (Score:5, Funny)
I call this the: clause.
I use it all the time (Score:5, Funny)
SELECT *
FROM tblWhatever a
INNER JOIN tblYaddaYadda b
ON a.ID = b.ID
WHERE b.foo = 1
Not to mention data entry work... lots of places that do data entry use all caps.
Oh, and did I mention that THIS IS A STUPID ARTICLE? SURELY THERE MUST BE SOMETHING EXCITING ENOUGH GOING ON IN THE WORLD THAT WE DON'T NEED TO PUT THIS CRAP ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE SITE?
How to defeat 13-year-old AOLers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Swap caps lock and control (Score:4, Funny)
I don't see that 'feature' in emacs
easy solution... (Score:2, Funny)
Caps Lock has another very important purpose (Score:4, Funny)
Is capslock dead? (Score:1, Funny)
As an ex-tech support... (Score:3, Funny)
CAPS LOCK IS NOT DEAD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Caps Lock has another very important purpose (Score:3, Funny)
Call me crazy, but I HOLD DOWN SHIFT for YELLING!!!
Re:Swap caps lock and control (Score:2, Funny)
> ONLY way to fly.
No, there is another. I have ctrl under my right pinky (home position). BTW,
shift is under my left pinky (home position). I have an Avant keyboard, so my
layout is as custom as I want it to be. It's *mostly* QWERTY, but I've made
some very key[1] changes. Central to these changes is removing the need to
hyperextend my pinkies on a constant basis.
Incidentally, there is no CAPSLOCK in my layout; if I want capital letters,
I'll type capital letters using shift; that's part of what it's there for.
I do have a ctrl key in the bottom left, which I can use for Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X
and Ctrl-V when my right hand is off the keyboard (e.g., on the mouse), but for
most ctrl combinations I use the right ctrl, which as noted is a home position.
[1] I didn't even *notice* that pun until I hit Preview. Honest.
CAPS LOCK. (Score:2, Funny)
MAKE PEOPLE RICH WITH MAILS IN ALL CAPS (Score:2, Funny)
OF COURSE? IT WAS QUITE HARD FOR ME TO READ HIS LETTER? AFTER ALL? AS A NATIVE FRENCH SPEAKER (HE IS COMING FROM COTE D'IVORE) HE IS NOT USED TO THIS STRANGE ENGLISH GRAMMAR. AND THEN HE IS AVOIDING ALL THESE STUPID EXTRA SYMBOLS LIKE , . AND
BUT WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I PERSONALLY THINK THAT IT'S OK HAVING TO READ THESE COMPLICATED EYES HURTING EMAILS? AFTER ALL? IT'S ABOUT FIFTY-FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS.
FROM KWENCH? MAY GOD BLESS YOU
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Re:OMG! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:4, Funny)
<pedant> That's not entirely correct. Old UNIX keyboards had Caps lock and left-ctrl the other way round. I still have a PC keyboard with this layout. </pedant>
That being said, the only use that I can think of for caps lock is to keep us sysadmins busy answering "Why doesn't my password work" queries!
Terry Pratchett's Death (Score:1, Funny)
If we removed it, PTerry would have hire a dwarf to keep pressed the Shift key while he is typing.
Re:Caps Lock has another very important purpose (Score:4, Funny)
First BSD now this?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:2, Funny)
Using Caps Lock *instead* of Shift! (Score:4, Funny)
I have a cousin who comes over to my house for holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc...), and he used to run a web page. I was showing him some stuff, and he went to go update the page. I noticed he was typing pretty slowly, especially around capitals, and then I looked down at the keyboard...
He was using Caps Lock twice for each capital letter!
Like instead of [SHIFT]H[/SHIFT]ello, world! he would do [CAPS LOCK/]H[CAPS LOCK/]ello, world!...
It was truly painful to watch. So, I told him, you shouldn't use the Caps Lock key like that, because that's what Shift is for! At the time, he got annoyed at me and said something like, I've already learned it this way, it's quicker for me...
Lo and behold, the next time he runs into me, he says thanks, I can type much faster now... it's now become a sort of joke between the two of us...
I can't figure out where he would learn that from, though... any ideas?
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:2, Funny)
Passing Time (Score:2, Funny)
I still use the CAPS lock key as long as its associated with a LED of any colour.
Between periods of burst programming, when I blankly stare at the glowing CRT, I tend to pass time by repeatedly pressing the CAPS lock key and getting absorbed by the pulsating LED.
By the way, all CAPS in this message were intentionally made by pressing the 'Caps Lock' key.
Capslock? What's that? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No! I use CapsLock as my "ESC" key (Score:3, Funny)
>you clearly didn't cut your teeth on a Sun
>mainframe.
And neither did you, given that Sun doesn't make mainframes, and never has.
Misuse of the word 'mainframe' in popular media is starting to really piss me off ( just watched 'the Net' a couple of hours ago... ) but on slashdot? come on. too many of us are going to realize that you're 12 and running winme.