From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sean.ohalpin@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: swap CapsLock and Ctrl only in Emacs Date: 20 Jun 2006 19:14:00 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1150856040.175975.156650@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <719148673.11150100023147.JavaMail.nntpgw@xnews001> <292826622.01150184914441.JavaMail.nntpgw@xnews002.nokia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150857637 12544 80.91.229.2 (21 Jun 2006 02:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 04:40:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fssds-0006wV-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fssds-0003lb-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 135.196.80.228 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1150856045 29455 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2006 02:14:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:14:05 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <292826622.01150184914441.JavaMail.nntpgw@xnews002.nokia.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=135.196.80.228; posting-account=YQ1GXg0AAAA4DDHyePnyHgGxpaJphkj0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139936 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35560 Archived-At: tury.peter@gmail.com wrote: [snip] > So now I think the best would be to replace CapsLock with left Ctrl: all keys would work as normally, except only(!) CapsLock what would work as left ctrl -> so I would have two left ctrl-s and none CapsLock in whole MS Windows (XP). > > Is this possible? Yup - I just did it myself. 1. Save the following to a .reg file Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00 ("Scancode Map"=... should all be on one line) 2. Double click in explorer to install 3. Reboot computer 4. Voila - two left control keys Have fun! Sean