I have a colleague that doesn't use shift and uses caps lock for capitalised words. I've never quite understood it, but he swears by it - even when he admits its slower...
Not sure he'd be too pleased with this opinion!
It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
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Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#32I was convinced to try and decided that I like using Caps Lock as a left-hand Backspace myself. Nice to have one on each side, and that one is a much more convenient reach for your pinky.
That's a great idea! You've inspired me to try setting it to Delete, because it's a bit awkward to delete characters after the caret on Mac right now (FN + Delete is the only way I know how)
I bound it to esc to try to learn vim with a touch bar. Delete sounds like an really good use. Might try that.
Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#33Shout out to my fellow Chromebook users.
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#35If someone agrees and wants to implement something like this easily - autohotkey lets you do this in Windows with a one line script. CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here To leave yourself some flexibility on using capslock still by hitting shift+ caps to activate it, use +CapsLock::CapsLock CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here
I map it to F13, which I then use as a combo key to give me a variety of media keys that my keyboard lacks natively.
Scroll lock is likewise mapped to F14 because that's another useless key.
Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#36A long time ago I ran anticapslock.com with articles and software about disabling/remapping the key.
The best achievement I did in the process was creating a software called clipcontrol, which turned the caps lock key into a clipboard control key.
So caps+X/c/v worked like cut/copy/paste Caps + 1-9 was history number 1-9 Then there was support for persistent clipboard entries, etc etc Even plugin support to do text formatting and similar :-)
I'm not sure if it still works on recent windows versions, I switched to Linux a long time ago and a Linux version is yet to be done
Anyway, I think caps lock should be a clipboard key as clipboards are an important part of many workflows.
Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#37A long time ago I ran anticapslock.com with articles and software about disabling/remapping the key. The best achievement I did in the process was creating a software called clipcontrol, which turned the caps lock key into a clipboard control key. So caps+X/c/v worked like cut/copy/paste Caps + 1-9 was history number 1-9 Then there was support for persistent clipboard entries, etc etc Even plugin support to do text f…
Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#38If someone agrees and wants to implement something like this easily - autohotkey lets you do this in Windows with a one line script. CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here To leave yourself some flexibility on using capslock still by hitting shift+ caps to activate it, use +CapsLock::CapsLock CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here
I map it to F13, which I then use as a combo key to give me a variety of media keys that my keyboard lacks natively. Scroll lock is likewise mapped to F14 because that's another useless key.
That's clever, I beat my head against the wall a few times trying to force direct mappings to other functions.
Re: It’s Time for Caps Lock to Die
#39A long time ago I ran anticapslock.com with articles and software about disabling/remapping the key. The best achievement I did in the process was creating a software called clipcontrol, which turned the caps lock key into a clipboard control key. So caps+X/c/v worked like cut/copy/paste Caps + 1-9 was history number 1-9 Then there was support for persistent clipboard entries, etc etc Even plugin support to do text f…
That's a fantastic idea!