Re: Caps Lock position

[David Rosenthal davidrosenthal@xxxxxxxx]

Ah; sorry.  


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Bill Troop mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx wrote:




David, my problem isn't that it is caps-lock - - I have, with some
program or another - - 
KeyTweak - - reassigned it to ctrl. My problem is
that on this keyboard I keep on hitting it accidentally. As I use Eudora
a lot, it is very easy, if I happen to hit ctrl accidentally whilst
quickly typing a word which contains e, t or m, to queue and send a
message midway through composition. If I brought it back to caps lock,
there would at least be less damage, and of course I may simply have to
disable it. But I hate having to move to the hand-disabling position that
ctrl now occupies on most keyboards.


At 11/01/2014 20:10, you wrote:

You can define it as control in
AutoHotKey.




On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Bill Troop
mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx
wrote:



If I can't change my habits I may have to do that. But I will sorely
miss not having it available as Ctrl.



At 10/01/2014 19:56, you wrote:


I use AutoHotKey (free), which Harry has sung the praises of, to
disable capslock; works like a charm.





On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Bill Troop
mailto:billtroop@xxxxxxxx
wrote:

Has anyone got advice on an apparently insoluble problem?


On the New XPS 15 w/3200x1800 screen I'm testing, I find that I often
press the caps lock kay (remapped to control) by accident. This leads to
a lot of accidents in Eudora. (Eudora, by the way, works fine in
3200x1800 mode under Win 8.1 - - it seems that it is automatically
superscaled so that everything, including all the icons, looks
normal.)


I can't imagine why I have so many problems with this keyboard. Maybe
I just need more time to get used to it. The geometry of the keyboard
doesn't seem to be particularly unusual, but I have not yet made precise
measurements.


I intend to start using an external keyboard more, but I must admit
that one of the great things about this very light, very capable laptop
is how easy it is to tote it around the house to, often, more comfortable
sitting positions.