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.
delete key? what? (Score:5, Insightful)
You dont use the delete key? how do you delete files? right click?!?
You do know timothy, that backspace is not delete right?
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There's nothing wrong with the delete key. The problem is that insert is so very close to the delete key that it is easy to hit delete on accident.
Missile Switch Cover (Score:3)
Then, the solution is to have a Missile Switch Cover-type http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9278 [sparkfun.com] thing over the Delete key. Makes my Nuclear General fantasy more believable too.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Funny)
Get a Man's keyboard. I never have that problem on my Model Ms.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
Get a Man's keyboard. I never have that problem on my Model Ms.
Same here... :-)
The IBM Model M: The World's Greatest PC Keyboard!!! [aibpc.com]
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My oldest is a 1990 1391401, still the daily work one, but I really want a 1986 one with the metal AT to PS2 converter.
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I am lacking the converter for my oldest (and use a generic one)... but it's a 1986 model with the original black AT cable) - it's "birthdate label" is in a pic in our blog post. I had an older one (16 days older) which I gave to my mom with a new computer - somewhere around 2 decades ago. She's went through 5 computers... same keyboard. :-)
Most of my other ones are a bit younger. This one (that I type on now) was born on Feb 5, 1996 in the UK (my only UK keyboard). A few other Model M's and three M13's
IBM Model M (Score:3)
I like to say "A model M is the only keyboard you can use to kill a man; then type his obituary."
I really like to say that, at least once a month.
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then you got to learn how to use keyboard if you keep hitting insert instead of delete.
I'm a business owner, i sell hosting services, manage tons of servers, code etc etc.
I *REFUSE* to use any keyboard which has non regular insert/delete key positioning, sizing or anything. how they are, is best how they are. I need both keys, regularly, each and every day.
For example, i cannot use any logitech keyboard as they have non-standard layouts. It's simply slow and hard to paste into SSH.
Also VIM uses either key i
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.
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Maybe if you are using a 20+ year old legacy system Shift+Insert would be useful, but beyond that....?
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.
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+1 Informative. I'll have to try that. The relatively few times I've used *nix, that *has* made it harder to work in the terminal.
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Informative)
Shift-Ctrl-C and -V usually work in X terminals, though.
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I use Shift-Insert almost religiously, and don't use Ctrl-V unless I have to.
What's evil about the insert key is that editors don't have an option to disable the insert/overwrite toggle behavior.
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Agreed. All editors should provide that option.
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.
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Why not use i and s?
Less reaching that way.
Yes, I do use Vim every work day and often at home.
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> Why not use i and s? Less reaching that way.
And reach even more to get to Esc to get between insert and command mode? On a modern keyboard you can live in insert mode most of the time since movement, insert/delete, etc. all have hard keys. The embedded movement keys were the bees' knees on an ancient terminal lacking in cursor keys but we have better stuff now.
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Honestly I just got used to it and can hit escape without looking, and not insert. I think because I use command mode so much.
If you use firefox, I highly recommend vimperator.
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This is particularly true if you map caps lock to escape...and thus we go full circle.
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CTRL-[ works just fine -- no stretching required.
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It's the reverse for me. The Insert key is so close to the Delete key that I sometimes hit it by accident. What does anyone need the Insert key for?
Hey guys, scroll lock and pause/break are useless!
Also, this control key? What's the point of that?!
Protip: Every key on the keyboard is useful. Just because you and your programs don't make use of a key doesn't mean you should have any input about the layout of my input devices.
Real talk: Got Excel? Click a cell, use the arrow keys. Hit scroll lock. Click a cell, use the arrow keys. HOLY SHIT A FUNCTION FOR A KEY YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. (Might work in Calc. I wouldn't know, since I'm not a masochi
Re:delete key? what? (Score:5, Insightful)
"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.
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'?
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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. as an alternative to the 'three-finger salute'?
Um, pardon, but how is using CTRL-INS not sending a CTRL character.
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God, this times a 1000. Have you ever had a need for resettng PRAM and NVRAM [apple.com]?
- Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
- Turn on the computer.
Uhh.... MOM!! Can you come help me turn on my computer?
Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Insightful)
True, I remember the game going black for a second and the start menu popping up, and then thinking "Shit."
But seriously, one thing Microsoft did get right is that they pretty much reserved the windows-key as a system-wide shortcut key. Start-D (desktop), Start-L (lock), Start-R (run), Start-F (find), Start-E (explorer). I *love* those key bindings.
Contrast with Mac's F9, F10, F11 and F12 keys. If your program just happens to use one of those keys, you're shit-out-of-luck (as is the case when trying to debug something in Visual Studio in a virtual machine, for example).
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Wait... you didn't mean that sort of MiB?
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But seriously, I use all the keys on the keyboard, except some of the F# keys. IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key. That is a useless key. Is there really someone out there that runs a windows desktop and does not use a mouse or lacks the abilit
Re:delete key? what? (Score:5, Interesting)
> IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key.
Useless keys are very valuable if you think outside the box. Map it to a compose key. Or use it as a special key for things like virtual machines instead of having to make do with chording a bunch of the buckybits. Of course if one is stuck on stupid (i.e. Windows) then there probably isn't much use for a useless key.
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Context Menu key? Windows key?
What sort of odd thing are you using?
Sounds like you need a better keyboard.
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There's no such thing as a useless key; there's only a key you haven't properly remapped in order to exploit. (For Windows NT 4/2000/XP/Vista/7, hunt down use KeyTweak and the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.)
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I map the Windows logo key to Meta, and the other Windows key (context menu?) to Compose. I get an extra modifier for keyboard shortcuts, and I can easily type those funny characters like and ü.
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Re:delete key? what? (Score:4, Interesting)
IF you want to talk about useless keys, let's talk about the 'context menu key' that is located beside the right windows key.
I use the Context key frequently. For example, if you're typing in Word and the spell checker identifies a mistake (red squiggle), I can put my cursor inside the word and use the Context key to pull up the spell check results. This is far faster than grabbing the mouse to use a right-click.
Likewise with working on files. I often navigate to folders and open them without using the mouse. The Context key lets me "right click" whatever I have selected so that I can send it to a USB drive, email it as an attachment, or open it with an alternative program.
I would say it gets far more use than the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock combined.
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properties/file permissions - Alt+Enter.
I see your point though. Most common commands already have shortcuts, but for the uncommon it might be useful. I'll have to try it out.
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How do you need a context key for ls and cd?
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Why do you want to take your hand from the keyboard?
Vi and Emacs are not word processors, they are text editors. Word is a tool for the feeble of mind in comparison, it lacks many of the more powerful and fast commands either of those are capable of.
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You dont use the delete key? how do you delete files?
rm
My printer only has capital letters (Score:5, Interesting)
My printer only has capital letters [aetherltd.com], you insensitive clods.
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WOT? NO CAPSLOCK? (Score:2)
Sounds like someone doesn't program using constants....
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I use constants but I hate caps lock.
1st, It's really easy to bump by accident.
2nd, when I type in constants, I often use underscores in them, far more frequently than numerals.
I would like a good old mechanical shift lock. Something with a solid click to it so it's harder to accidentally engage.
When I type in constants, I hold one finger on the shift key and make do with the remaining three fingers on my left hand. I find that much easier than the decidedly odd behaviour.
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I use constants but I hate caps lock. 1st, It's really easy to bump by accident.
2nd, when I type in constants, I often use underscores in them, far more frequently than numerals.
I would like a good old mechanical shift lock.
Something with a solid click to it so it's harder to accidentally engage.
When I type in constants, I hold one finger on the shift key and make do with the remaining three fingers on my left hand. I find that much easier than the decidedly odd behaviour.
Get an IBM Model M [aibpc.com]. The keycap has a chunk taken out of it next to the "A" key to make it more difficult to accidentally hit. Actually, all the keys are pretty much more difficult to accidentally hit due to the key design/layout (deeper left-right curves on the keycaps, generous "V" spacing between each key, etc), curvature of the layout (stepped rows), tactile/mechanical aspect, etc... and of course, they make great bludgeoning weapons that you can still use afterwards to type up the suicide note of the pe
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I would be happy with a feature where a long press on shift activates caps lock. I think thats more intuitive and less likely to be activated accidentally.
The caps lock key doesn't bother me (Score:3)
What I want to know is how I can patch the kernel to force num lock on and ignore all attempts to turn it off.
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What about when I'm not running X?
I already fixed one annoyance in the kernel in an extremely simple patch that I've been applying for years. I don't want console blanking and I never found a reliable userspace solution to turn it off so I just changed the default in the kernel. Now it never bothers me.
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 281aada..a044b99 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int console_blanked;
static int vesa_blank_mode; /* 0:no
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> I don't want console blanking and I never found a reliable userspace solution to turn it off ...
Man setterm.
Specifically, add setterm -powersave off to something like rc.local and forget about it. Sure as hell beats using a custom kernel vs your distro's better maintained one just for that. Of course if you are running a custom kernel anyway, guess one more patch doesn't hurt anything.
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setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0 -blank 0
That's in my rc.local ... fixes the damn issue. Really, happy-trigger kernel-patching is a bad solution, and goes against the beauty of Unix. You have an extremely powerful operating system, amazingly flexible, where you can do just about everything you need. Use it. Applying a kernel patch to change some userland behavior is the kind of ugly-hack I would expect from microsoft, not from GNU/Linux.
Re:The caps lock key doesn't bother me (Score:4, Interesting)
when you run the system as single user, custom patch are not an ugly hack, they are a thing of beauty, a symbol of freedom
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Someday I want to do the same thing with num lock. I want it to be ON all the time with no possibility of turning it off ever.
I saw some solutions for that and tried them. Then when connecting to another machine via VNC I noticed that on the other side the numlock wasn't active and I had to press it locally to activate it remotely... but since I'd removed the capability locally I was screwed. So now I just live with it and press the damn caps-lock after boot.
Get rid of all these stupid useless keys (Score:5, Interesting)
I work in the Employment office in Gresham, Oregon USA. I help people use computers. In order to get unemployment checks in Oregon, all applicants have to complete this long questionaire on a PC about their occupational skills, work history, and personal status. People can do this on-line or come into our 'worksource center' and use the computers that we have here. And I'm supposed to help them. (I get minimum wage for this and no benefits. Nnot that that is important. I just want you to know that I'm not a highly paid government employee)
The information is supposed to match the unemployed with the jobs that all the companies in Oregon have available.
Not a bad concept except for two things. There are no jobs, and, about half of the people coming through the process can't use computers. And about 15-20% of the people can't speak english and have never, ever, ever used a computer before. I am not bullshitting you about this. It seems like a fantasy to highly-educated young Slashdaughters like yourself, but I assure you that this is the case in the lower-middle class neighborhoods of the USA (and probably the rest of the world as well).
So I get a lot of people who have never typed on a keyboard before. And they get put in front of a keyboard that was designed for advanced professional word-processing business typists of the early 1980's era. A lot of them must feel like they've been abducted by space aliens, especially the ones who have come from pre-industrial cultures and have been doing 'under the table' unskilled construction labor or fruit picking.
I would greatly help if there were only half of the keys on the PC keyboard that there are presently. And get rid of the fucking Num-lock key and the stupid Caps-Lock key!
Please.
I'm not kidding about this. Just do it.
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> 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
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A baseless, totally irrelevant, ad hominem attack that paints all of your political opponents as stupid and/or illogical. Lemme guess, Tea Partier/Republican.
(And no, I did not vote for Obama, nor am I the GP).
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Scroll lock is used for all kinds of stuff, KVMs some terminal systems. Leave it alone.
Windows keys can be ditched with the OS.
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Put in a request for one of a Ergoguys KB1 Keyboard Or a Greystone BigKeys LX Kids Keyboard
Worst case, gt stickers with easy to read letters and put themon the keyboard. besure that have a divverent background then the keyboard.
At least you can tell then to ignore the rest.
I use cap lock s and num-lock. Don't assume you don't need them so no one does.
Oregon use to have a free course at PCC on basic computer skills like these, has that stopped? It was part of the resume building job assistant stuff. Good stu
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What OS can't map the keys out?
Even old windows versions do this by registry key, in any OS using X you can use xmodmap.
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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.
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FreeBSD uses it on the console screen --- hit scrolllock and then page up and page down work. That's about the only time I've seen a use for it.
How many keys left in a few years? (Score:3)
What is it with this crazy trend of removing useful keys??
I don't really care much about caps lock, which is only very rarely useful. But the Delete key??? How do you delete stuff (files, icons, ...) without it? How do you delete right of the cursor instead of left?
Already, Page Up/Down and Home/End are gone on many notebook keyboards, making simple stuff like select to the start/end of line (Shift-Home / Shift-End) too clumsy to be useful when you need to hold a third Fn key simultaneously. And selecting to the end of the document becomes almost impossible.
So now someone is advocating the removal of Insert/Delete?
What is the next step? The return of Bob as a geek power-user OS?
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But the Delete key??? How do you delete stuff (files, icons, ...) without it?
Wow... I feel spoiled that I started computers in the day when there was no mouse or even GUI. Here's what you do (assuming Windows).
- Go to the icon/file/whatever (use the mouse to right-click it) - wait for context menu
- Hit "Shift D" to permanently delete it or hit "D" to move to recycle bin
Failing having a mouse, use the keyboard to change the selection to the one you want, hit Shift-F10 to pull up it's popup menu, then follow deletion steps above.
For multiple files, you can hold shift while selec
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What are you talking about? Do you suggest that the Delete key is not needed because all these file-manager specific shortcuts combined with right-click context menus and what-mot can be used instead?
Are you trying to say that a relatively standard key is not needed because every single program has it's own proprietary multi-key shortcut to accomplish the same task?
An video on how to use the Chrome notebook (Score:2)
Here you go!
Using a Chrome notebook [youtube.com]
That's a relief but we still need improvement (Score:2)
I won't be happy until they bring back the NUM LOCK key!!!!!
How to kill the evil capslock key (Score:5, Funny)
xmodmap -e "clear Lock"
If this doesn't work, get a real operating system.
WHO CARES? (Score:2)
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Re:WHO CARES? (Score:5, Interesting)
> Are any of the techies who visit this site going to buy a laptop that can only run one program and can't be modified?
Don't bet on that last bit. I'm totally stoked about Chrome but not because I actually want such a retarded thing. How long have we been waiting for ARM based netbooks? Just when it looked like the Year of Linux on the Netbook was here and would soon abandon the power guzzling Atom for a more sensible ARM, Wintel threw its weight around and netbooks vanished. Hint: if it isn't cheap, small, light, flash based and netcentric it ain't a netbook. What the marketing folks are branding as netbooks these days are three pounds plus and have hard hard drives loaded with Windows. Well now here comes ARM based hardware just waiting to get repurposed to running a more general purpose netbook environment. And rooted it will be, just like every Android product has been rooted.
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Well now here comes ARM based hardware just waiting to get repurposed to running a more general purpose netbook environment.
Here? Are you talking about the Cr-48 from TFA? Because that's an Atom device, not ARM.
Re:WHO CARES? (Score:4, Interesting)
> Because that's an Atom device, not ARM.
It is also a limited run prototype intended to seed the developer market. If Google puts a stupid Atom into the production hardware I'll lose all respect for them. It runs one application and one plugin. It is ported to ARM as is Flash. Intel hopes to someday (maybe even next year... yeah right) get idle power consumption down to under a watt. You can get some pretty nice ARM SoC solutions that top out at a watt. And that is for everything but the backlight, not just the CPU. These prototypes are three fracking pounds. If that is anything like what is going to ship Google can pack it in now and save everyone the bother.
Not to mention that if it ships with Intel Inside the pricetag is going to be right in with the modern Windows based netbooks and again, why bother? If they aren't planning to deliver them at retail to end users for $200 in WiFi or free with a 3G data plan then again, Google is far less savy than I have been giving them credit for. To hit those pricepoints ARM is the only option. Intel has no plans to offer a SoC solution anytime in the next couple of years and there are multiple ARM based solutions shipping that have CPU+GPU+3G+WiFi+Bluetooth+Power on the same chip and you can get SoC+RAM+FLASH on a very small module.
Want an ARM notebook? Try Toshiba AC100 (Score:3)
Powered by a nVidia Tegra 2 processor and a special version of Android.
However, reviews haven't been kind on it:
http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/03/review_netbook_toshiba_ac100/ [reghardware.com]
10/100
"The beautifully designed and executed hardware is very close to my ideal netbook, and it's hardly an exaggeration to say that I'm heart-broken by Toshiba's cocked-up Android implementation. The best one can hope for is a firmware rescue from the open source community, although I wonder if the product will stay around long en
How would you ever turn it off? (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
The only thing that will change it make it hard to turn off, so that we'll have users going for months with their caps lock on because they can't find where to switch it back.
There are better things to "banish" (Score:2)
>"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."
There are many reasons one might need or want a Caps-lock key and it doesn't and shouldn't be hidden away. I often need one when coding and doing certain types of data entry. I certainly find it a lot more valuable than the apparently mandated, non-standard, changing, "my this" and "my that"
Speak for yourself! (Score:4, Insightful)
What about ctrl+delete (cut)
what about ctrl+insert (paste)
What about CTRL+ALT+DELETE?
Did you actually think about how others use the keys before you so cavalierly decided to banish a key? And why pick on insert delete when there is so much more low hanging fruit? Why not pick on F9-F12? Scroll lock?! Or the duplicated forward slashes or pipe key? Who uses tilde or grave!? And I guess we couldn't get rid of one set or the other of the windows keys?
Personally, I cannot dispense with a single key for me or my clients. If I'm on a support call the last thing I want to hear is "I don't have a delete key" –
No! They cannot, there is no taskbar!.
You might as well upload a virus that prevents you from accessing the windows task manager. Please let's think about the children, they'll be supporting windows XP until they die, let’s give them a easy way to log on to the machine.
I hope all these forward thinking kids think about the repercussions of their actions before we end up with a crappy cell phone keyboard hooked up to a Cray 32.
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How do you switch your cursor from insert to overwrite mode?
R
How do you delete characters on the right hand side of the cursor?
dh
How would you easily delete a line via keyboard
dd
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I don't know my left from my right.
DUMBASS IDEA, EYE NEED CAPSLOCK. (Score:5, Informative)
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I am in a similar situation. What really pains me is basically the CAPS lock key is being used to sole a software problem. If the software was worth a damn, it would do it automatically. The stuff I write does, that's for damn sure.
P erfer (Score:2)
this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo&NR=1 [youtube.com]
Probably because of the fire, nitrogen and conveyor belt.
Obligatory Quote Reference... (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.bash.org/?835030
Need new keys (Score:2)
We need keys for the "cents", "degree", "multiplication" and "division" symbols, and a shift-tab key to tab backwards through form fields.
And when web browsers properly implement multicolumn text (where columns are added and removed as needed based on the browser window size), we'll need "Page Left" and "Page Right" keys.
And how often do non-programmers need the "carot" symbol, the "pipe" symbol, or curly braces? Get a programmer's keyboard if you need those.
And it would be nice if Apple and Microsoft could
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"Degree is not needed 110F is fine"
The way to make sure the degree symbol is not needed is to have everyone switch to using Kelvins.
Oh and if your talking outside temperature, 316.5K is too fscking hot.
What about one-handed people? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously. People incapable of using both hands at once, how are they going to manage comfortably typing all the capital letters without caps-lock?
Too many seem to only think of how they themselves use something an assume the entire world needs only that.
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).
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> Annoys the snot out of my wife and kids, but that's hardly my problem.
So you are doing it wrong just to annoy people? Childish. Easy enough to only have the unusual keymapping when you are logged in and leave the system default alone.
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Bah, Ctrl where Caps is often found is the right way!
Better to teach them now, then have them use that heathen layout.
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> Annoys the snot out of my wife and kids, but that's hardly my problem.
So you are doing it wrong just to annoy people?
I run FVWM with Button3 mapped to the window close function and the mouse buttons reversed with xmodmap. Its annoying for people who try to use my workspace but I can live with that.
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First thing I do to new computers is remap caps lock to control, the way God and RMS intended...
And?