Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All 391
Meshach writes "Amidst all the angst about Google taking away the caps lock key from Chrome it now appears that is not the case. With one small change any user can change the Modifier Key from a Search key to a Caps Lock key. Peace has been restored..." If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:5, Informative)
Shift+Insert is sometimes easier than Ctrl+V for pasting stuff, but I can't think of any other reason I use the key.
Re:Get rid of all these stupid useless keys (Score:2, Informative)
> I would greatly help if there were only half of the keys
> on the PC keyboard that there are presently.
So to please uneducated non computer users who don't own or use computers, we who do know how to use all the keys on a modern keyboard should be forced to endure a crippled user interface. Lemme guess, Obama voter.
Trust me, every key is needed with the possible exception of caps and num lock. Numlock is just there as a legacy from the old 84 key keyboard and could be eliminated... except a lot of things glommed on to it as a an unneeded key that could be repurposed. Same for scroll lock, lots of KVM boxes use scroll lock to switch displays.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
> What does anyone need the Insert key for?
You poor deprived fool. Ins toggles between insert and overstrike in Vi/Vim. Use it most days. You obviously need better tools.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
Get a Man's keyboard. I never have that problem on my Model Ms.
Same here... :-)
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Re:Get rid of all these stupid useless keys (Score:4, Informative)
It was used so you could scroll up and down on a terminal with the arrow keys. Now, get off my lawn.
DUMBASS IDEA, EYE NEED CAPSLOCK. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:delete key? what? (Score:5, Informative)
If you're using a Linux terminal (or an ssh session in PuTTY or something), Ctrl+V doesn't paste (for the same reason that Ctrl+C does not copy), but Shift+Insert does.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
Shift-Ctrl-C and -V usually work in X terminals, though.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
"If there must be such a thing as a Caps Lock key on conventional keyboards, I wish it could be banished (along with the Insert/Delete pair) to a hard-to-fumble-upon switch on the bottom of the keyboard or laptop."
Sorry, I have never been so pissed of in my /. life and I've got to say: "timothy, you're an idiot".
People that don't use the whole keyboard and key combos have no idea how much productivity they are throwing away. That's one of the thing I hate about mac keyboards and Apple's inability to understand that people have a limited number of fingers.
Additionally, those of us accustomed to working with *nix operating systems know that CTRL-INS and SHIFT-INS are handy combinations for copy & paste, especially when you don't want to actually send CTRL characters to the terminal. And they work in Windows, too. Speaking of which... Timothy, what would you recommend as an alternative to the 'three-finger salute'?
Re:What about one-handed people? (Score:4, Informative)
People incapable of using both hands at once, how are they going to manage comfortably typing all the capital letters without caps-lock?
Those people can use Sticky Keys [wikipedia.org] for all the modifier keys (including Shift).