Caps Lock unset....

Caps Lock unset....

[Todd Wylie]

Hi all-

I'd love to be able to do a global-unset-key on my Caps Lock key; I never use 
the damn thing and accidentally turn it on at inopportune moments. I can't 
get a lock on it by C-q-<Caps Lock>, though. Is there a way to unset this 
key?

Thanks-
Todd

Re: Caps Lock unset....

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.8091.1055862701.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Todd Wylie  <twylie@watson.wustl.edu> wrote:
>I'd love to be able to do a global-unset-key on my Caps Lock key; I never use 
>the damn thing and accidentally turn it on at inopportune moments. I can't 
>get a lock on it by C-q-<Caps Lock>, though. Is there a way to unset this 
>key?

Caps-Lock is generally handled transparently by the terminal driver or the
X server.

Under X you should be able to change it using xmodmap.

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Re: Caps Lock unset....

[Joshua D. Guttman]

Todd Wylie <twylie@watson.wustl.edu> writes:

>   
>   
>   I'd love to be able to do a global-unset-key on my Caps Lock key 


If you're using X windows (e.g. with Linux) you can use xmodmap with
this:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L

put this in ~/.keymap.km and put this in .xinitrc:

xmodmap .keymap_linux.km

        Joshua 

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Re: Caps Lock unset....

[Rupert]

In article <mailman.8091.1055862701.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Todd Wylie wrote:
> 
> I'd love to be able to do a global-unset-key on my Caps Lock key

In X, if you run xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' then caps lock will be
disabled globally. Not sure about the console, but there's bound to be
a similar solution.

Rupert

RE: Caps Lock unset....

[Victor Kirk]

>> I'd love to be able to do a global-unset-key on my Caps Lock key 
>
> If you're using X windows (e.g. with Linux) you can use xmodmap

Or on windows (I believe the op is using Linux though)

(set 'w32-enable-caps-lock nil) 

Regards,

Vic
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Re: Caps Lock unset....

[Todd Wylie]

Ahhh... most welcome feedback. Thanks all!

Re: Caps Lock unset....

[Sam Halliday]

spicano wrote:
> Here is a neat utility I use on all my windows machines, to globally
> change the caps-lock to control

please dont post large files on mailing lists (and newsgroups). once you
consider how many people are on this list, do you have any idea how much
traffic that file caused? (im guessing hundreds of MB, all payed for by
gnu.org...).

thanks for the thought anyway spicano, but rather say you have such a
tool and let people ask for it indivudally from you.