From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dnied@tiscali.it (Dario Niedermann) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:32:46 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: References: <53db573b.rwfkVi3XCkWueUYL%dnied@tiscali.it> <20140801105029.58656ubc05nkkh2d@webmail.mhorton.net> Message-ID: <53dc077e.E3btd/HuiFAS2vF5%dnied@tiscali.it> Dave Horsfall wrote: > Personally I've yet to think of a single use for Caps Lock and Num Lock. > > Whenever I get stuck with a M$ keyboard (which seems to be most of them) I > prise off a few irritating keys so that I don't hit the poxy things by > mistake. CapsLock has its use, it's just that on a typical PC keyboard the key is unnecessarily large and easy to reach. But it's simple enough to swap it with -say- Esc. I've been doing just that on X11, Linux console and OpenBSD console. See: X11: xmodmap(1); Linux: loadkeys(1), keymaps(5); OpenBSD: wsconsctl(8) -- Gopherhole: gopher://retro-net.org/1/dnied/ Homepage: http://devio.us/~ndr/