Keyboard drivers...
Alistair J. R. Young
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...and their ilk.
For sundry reasons, I find myself writing one of these delightful
things, for PC hardware. While I'm tossing out accepted standards in
favour of doing it the Right Way - and adding modifier keys - can I
run my proposed new arrangement past you for acceptability?
What Was... ...I Think Ought To Be
Caps Lock Control
[bottom row]
Left Control Caps Lock
Left Windows Meta
Alt Alt
Space Space
Alt Gr Alt Gr
Right Windows Hyper
Windows Menu Super
Right Control Er... Another modifier key of uncertain name. Greek?
Workable?
Alistair
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Lars Balker Rasmussen
> What Was... ...I Think Ought To Be
>
> Caps Lock Control
>
> [bottom row]
> Left Control Caps Lock
(*mutter* damn typewriter throwback)
Why have a caps lock key at all?
> Left Windows Meta
> Alt Alt
> Space Space
> Alt Gr Alt Gr
> Right Windows Hyper
> Windows Menu Super
> Right Control Er... Another modifier key of uncertain name. Greek?
Someone's going to write this, might as well be me: Right control
should obviously be coke bottle.
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Russ Allbery
> (*mutter* damn typewriter throwback) Why have a caps lock key at all?
Good question. I've been just mapping mine to Control and being done with
it since at least mid-1996 and probably longer than that. I forget
off-hand when I started. Haven't missed it yet.
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Tony Finch
I occasionally use it for typing lots of great runes.
Tony.
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Peter da Silva
like to recommend falling back to typewriter behaviour:
CAPS-LOCK acts as a shift key for alphanumeric keys only.
To lock in UPPERCASE mode, you hit SHIFT and CAPS-LOCK together.
Tapping CAPS-LOCK removes CAPS-LOCK.
This way the AOL mode is still available, but you can't get into it
accidentally.
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Alistair J. R. Young
Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> (== peter)
praised Shub-Internet thus:
> I don't care what order you arrange caps-lock and control, but I would
> like to recommend falling back to typewriter behaviour:
> CAPS-LOCK acts as a shift key for alphanumeric keys only.
> To lock in UPPERCASE mode, you hit SHIFT and CAPS-LOCK together.
> Tapping CAPS-LOCK removes CAPS-LOCK.
> This way the AOL mode is still available, but you can't get into it
> accidentally.
Sounds about the best to me, so I think I'll adopt it. Thanks.
(Of course, now I'm going to annoy everyone by writing significant
Emacs keybindings into the keyboard driver in the sacred name of
consistency, so that should lose whatever I've gained by making a
sensible choice there...)
Alistair
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