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RE: Caps off to ya'
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:15:00 +0100 (BST)
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Larry Seltzer wrote:
In the 25 years that we've had the PC keyboard nobody has ever used the SysRq key and the Scroll Lock has only ever been used by mistake, and yet they pick on Caps Lock?
I used to use Scroll Lock a lot. It's used to change the function of the arrow keys, so they scroll the text instead of the cursor.
Certainly it's too prominent. On my own Thinkpad that I'm typing on now Caps Lock is actually oversized, yet Num Lock, a much more useful key, is some obscure combination involving the Fn key. Perhaps we should be speaking in terms of "keyboard reform" rather than banning a useful key for being abused.
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- Re: Caps off to ya', (continued)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Dude VanWinkle (Aug 18)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Dr. Neal Krawetz (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Dude VanWinkle (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Nick FitzGerald (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' Drsolly (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' Larry Seltzer (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' Drsolly (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' Drsolly (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' Drsolly (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 19)
- RE: Caps off to ya' David Harley (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Dr. Neal Krawetz (Aug 19)
- Re: Caps off to ya' David Lodge (Aug 22)
- Re: Caps off to ya' Dude VanWinkle (Aug 19)