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Re: Caps Lock position



I could do that but I don't see the point unless I could set the photo up
in some kind of scientifically valid manner,



Not necessary: I just don't grasp the nature of the problem. Seeing your
kbd would help.


As I understand it, you do want to use the capslock key as ctrl, but
sometimes you find yourself hitting that key when you didn't mean to. In
those cases, what key did you mean to hit?



and I don't know how to do that. I do mean to try to take some decent
measurements and those, together with a photo, may be of some help.


You bring up another matter: are attachments allowed in this list? Is
HTML? And I have a general question: to what extent do people read email
in non-HTML-capable email readers today?


At 11/01/2014 23:25, you wrote:


Bill,

Why not take a photo of the keyboard and upload it here? If that's
against the rules, put it somewhere on the web that we can take a look.


--Harry

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@xxxxxxxxbilltroop@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@xxxxxxxxbilltroop@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.