Re: caps lock keys

["Fredric Gross" fredric.gross@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie --

At least on my machine, the right-side and left-side Ctrl keys have separate
key codes; same for the two Alt keys. Consequently, remapping one does not
automatically remap the other.

I am allergic to Windows and cannot speak to that.

Fred



----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Bialler" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: caps lock keys



> What about the right-side ctrl and alt keys? Do they stay where they are?
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> >Many years ago, I tweeked my Xy3+ .KBD file so that the CAPS LOCK key is
> >Ctrl; the Ctrl key is Alt, and the Alt key is Caps Lock. > >
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Leslie Bialler" 
> >To: 
> >Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:02 AM
> >Subject: Re: Re File-specific display mode
> >
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> >
> >>Patrica wails:
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> >>>Harry is so right about keyboard layout. Caps Lock next to A and right
> >>>under Tab has to be the DUMBEST design decision ever made.
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> >>>
> >>If you look at the design of a traditional typewriter keyboard, you will
> >>not fail to notice the same array of keys. If you want to talk about
> >>dumb design decisions, I would dial back 120 years or so to the design
> >>of the first typewriters. Far more vexatious than the position of the
> >>caps lock key is the position of the "a" key itself, which is, of
> >>course, struck with, typically, the weakest of the fingers.
> >>
> >>Anyhow, if you log into brainsystems.com, you will find freeware that
> >>disables the caps lock key, which of course, so many touch typists hit
> >>when they think they're hitting the tab key.
> >>
> >>Notes and asides: The Royal Standard typewriter of ca. 1955 had a tab
> >>key that was to the right of the spacebar. It was elongated vertically
> >>and could be struck with the right palm. (They had brown spackle
> >>finishes and the keys were green plastic, slightly indented to fit the
> >>fingers--an innovation then.) That has always struck me as the exemplar
> >>of "Good Design."
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> >>
> >>--
> >>Leslie Bialler, Columbia University Press
> >>lb136@xxxxxxxx
> >>61 W. 62 St, NYC 10023
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> >>>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
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> --
> Leslie Bialler, Columbia University Press
> lb136@xxxxxxxx
> 61 W. 62 St, NYC 10023
> 212-459-0600 X7109 (phone) 212-459-3677 (fax)
> > http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
>