From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: a key system to replace gnu emacs's 1000 default keybindings Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7db350db-3809-4ba1-97cd-c4b97357cd4c@pr7g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> References: <5ee2582c-026b-4ab3-b5a7-c2d3e66ff511@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> <4d8a8454-22d9-44a3-9f57-7d5791534d30@t2g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> <4FC00690.9090200@thadlabs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338051323 12191 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2012 16:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 16:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 18:55:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SYKGm-0005pg-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 18:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SYKGm-0001oj-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 12:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!pr7g2000pbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1338051109 18221 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2012 16:51:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 16:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: pr7g2000pbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192591 comp.emacs:102481 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84997 Archived-At: On May 26, 8:57=C2=A0am, Dan Espen wrote: > Perhaps you should read more carefully. > > Thad remapped Caps Lock to ANOTHER Ctrl. > He didn't SWAP anything. that doesn't matter. Those who use capslock for Ctrl basically only use that single key for Ctrl. =E3=80=88Emacs: Why You Should Not Swap {Caps=C2=A0Lock, Control} Keys=E3= =80=89 http://xahlee.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html if you consider Capslock key useless, you can given it another function. I've been using it as a modifier to insert unicode (e.g. APL keyboard), or as emacs's M-x. Currently, it does emacs's mark. Still experimental. > When I want all uppercase, > Emacs is fully capable of uppercasing as much typing as I need. vast majority of people are not using emacs. > I don't need or want a Caps Lock key anywhere on my keyboard. > > You'll need to create another write up that explains why > we can't live without CAPS LOCK. Thanks for asking. I think the Caplock key should be eliminated, together with {Pause/ Break, Insert}. Though other problems of standard PC keyboard are more critical for change. Detail: =E3=80=88Keyboard Hardware Design Flaws=E3=80=89 http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_problems.html Xah