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From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 15:38:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F3B8BE1B-0611-4E41-9417-35C15DB418C1@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53dc077e.E3btd/HuiFAS2vF5%dnied@tiscali.it>

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On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Dario Niedermann <dnied at tiscali.it> wrote:

> Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> 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)

The one true key to the left of the ‘a’ key is Control. All other keyboards are heretical.

Warner

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-01 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-31 19:44 Tim Newsham
2014-07-31 22:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02 13:30   ` random832
2014-08-01  9:00 ` Dario Niedermann
2014-08-01 15:13   ` Andy Kosela
2014-08-01 15:28     ` Milo Velimirović
2014-08-01 17:50       ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-01 17:59         ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-01 19:59           ` Tim Newsham
2014-08-01 20:11         ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-01 20:35           ` John Cowan
2014-08-02  1:49             ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02  3:27               ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-02  3:45                 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-08-02  9:24                   ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-02 14:28                     ` [TUHS] Lisp is a family quarrel John Cowan
2014-08-03  6:47                   ` [TUHS] terminal - just for fun Dave Horsfall
2014-08-04 18:04                   ` scj
2014-08-04 18:18                     ` Tim Newsham
2014-08-04 18:29                       ` John Cowan
2014-08-04 19:10                         ` Tim Newsham
2014-08-04 19:13                           ` Milo Velimirović
2014-08-04 19:21                             ` Tim Newsham
2014-08-04 18:28                     ` John Cowan
2014-08-05 13:13                       ` arnold
2014-08-05 14:20                         ` John Cowan
2014-08-05 14:46                           ` arnold
2014-08-04 20:15                     ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-04 20:39                       ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02  4:28                 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02  4:46                 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-02 13:22                 ` Nemo
2014-08-02  3:37               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-08-02  5:45                 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02  6:09                   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
     [not found]               ` <20140802061214.GC13625@mercury.ccil.org>
2014-08-02  6:17                 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02 13:35                   ` Bill Pechter
2014-08-02 14:04                     ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-08-03  2:00                       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-08-02 14:30                   ` John Cowan
2014-08-01 21:32           ` Dario Niedermann
2014-08-01 21:38             ` Warner Losh [this message]
2014-08-01 21:56               ` Dario Niedermann
2014-08-04 19:46 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-04 20:46 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 21:07 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2014-08-06  2:56 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-06  6:45 ` arnold
2014-08-06  7:47   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-06  9:09     ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-06 20:43     ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 21:40       ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-06 13:22   ` John Cowan
2014-08-06 13:44     ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-06 15:26     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-08-06 16:15       ` Armando Stettner
2014-08-06 20:16         ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-06 20:32           ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 16:37       ` John Cowan
2014-08-06 17:53         ` scj
2014-08-06 19:44           ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-06 20:36             ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 20:38           ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-06 16:49       ` Milo Velimirović
2014-08-06 18:26       ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-06 18:48         ` Mary Ann Horton

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