From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: capslock changes control characters? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:49:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7A3695BB-0265-4CDE-BAE4-2395FE14792F@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204555797 10881 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 14:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 15:50:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWBzP-0004Oh-76 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWByr-00061z-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWByn-00060c-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWByi-0005tU-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWByi-0005tJ-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWByh-0001l6-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JWByg-0001Vy-PM for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWByY-0001iy-Tz for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:13 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWByY-0001gw-Ed for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:49:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A70F32607; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:49:03 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: ANN JILLIAN'S HAIR makes LONI ANDERSON'S HAIR look like RICARDO MONTALBAN'S HAIR! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 03 Mar 2008 09\:02\:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91178 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21397 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> (You may criticize the useless Caps Lock key, you may comment on the p= oor >> choice of the C-x B key-binding (it's only an example), but one has l= ittle >> control over these things one for various reasons.) > > `xmodmap' will quickly and effectively get you rid of the caps-lock pes= t > and replace it with the much more useful `control' key. Or add ctrl:nocaps to your XKB options. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."