I hit CAPS LOCK on accident now and then, usually when I'm hitting Tab often. I don't even want to admit how often I enter the wrong mode in vi because I have CAPS LOCK enabled.
As far as Notepad, well, the solution is to use Notepad++. I love that editor in Windows. -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ willhill wrote: > Here is a funny rant: > > http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=argh_microsoft_notepad_crlf_argh&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 > > A couple of years ago, I realized that a whole generation has grown up > without > ever having to use a typewriter. A classmate was complaining that he always > hit the Caps Lock key and wondered aloud why it was where it was. I > explained to him the mechanics of manual typewriters, He already understood > human inertia. > > So why was it that M$ screwed up line feeds? Was it because they did not > have > printcap and had to rely on human beings to keep early printers to keep from > printing at the end of carriage? Why have they not fixed this when every > modern print system works without it? GNU/Linux editors, right down to vim, > have been able to deal with Notepad's broken output transparently for years. > Does M$ enjoy their perversion? Are they still at war with commercial Unix? > Why does Penguin Pete care? > > Is there something else that I missed when talking to my classmate? I almost > never hit the caps lock by mistake. I could attribute this to my model M > keyboard, but they tiny keys of my X30 Thinkpad are not a problem either. In > fact, no keyboard has done this to me. Do Windows users find themselves > reaching for the tab button often? Why is the caps lock button a problem to > so many people? > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://esva.puryear-it.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id= > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
