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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