[OT] INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCKDAY

[Florian Diesch]

"Samuel Thurston, III" <sam.thurston at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Amedee Van Gasse (u2s) wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, October 22, 2009 12:01, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there anyone using CapsLock as CapsLock?
>>>>
>>>> I do.
>>
>> I don't get it.  Why would people NOT want a capslock?  Is it just because
>> most people can't actually type, and accidentally get caps when they don't
>> want them?
>>
>>> TODAY (22 OCTOBER) IS INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCKDAY!
>>> HTTP://CAPSLOCKDAY.COM/
>>
>> I can imagine disabling capslock to use the key for something more
>> necessary, but this page actually points to another where they just make it
>> a dead key on a Mac (in an extremely convoluted process that can't possibly
>> be necessary).  What a waste.
>
> IT'S USEFUL TO US PROGRAMMERS.
> :)
>
> When you're typing out long macro names holding shift down can exhaust
> your poor little pinky finger.

That's why THE EDITOR has upcase-word (M-u) and upcase-region (C-x C-u)

> A little doc reading and xorg.conf tinkering could lead you to remap
> it to something useful (but what?)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey


   Florian
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