On 6/11/15, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> "A" - in other words swap the CapsLock and Ctrl keys - otherwise your >> pinky is a goner. >> > > > That's a great idea. i'll take a look at that (will help with bash, in any > case). >
Just an historical note for all you younglings: In days of yore, the Ctrl key was always beside the "A" key by default. Then IBM entered the market with the IBM PC, and they moved the key arrangement around so that it would match the keys on the IBM Selectric typewriter. This was met with great howls of protest from programmers. But IBM's target market was business users, not programmers, so those protests fell upon deaf ears and the Selectric typewriter arrangement stuck. And then the rest of the keyboard makers started following IBM's lead. Ever since then, we poor programmers have forced to use hacks like xmodmap to get the keys back into the correct place. BTW, your ~/.Xmodmap file should be this: remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
