Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I'd be delighted if they simply eliminated the CAPS facility entirely; my experience with it and its brethren has been uniformly unpleasant. As noted previously, it's much supplanted by the CAPS LOCK key on modern keyboards.
If we had a method of unconditionally maintaining CAPS OFF mode all the time, that yield the same effect as eliminating the CAPS facility altogether. I would both welcome and push for such an option. (as well as the analogous setting I would never use -- to keep CAPS ON in effect all the time, for people like Shane and Ted).
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Or a langage-sensitive CAPS mode in the editor, which would take text as-is in comments and quoted strings, and convert to majuscule elsewhere.
I prefer not to have the editor change *anything* I've typed. (That's why I like CAPS OFF mode in all cases.) When I type uppercase, I want uppercase. When I type lowercase, I want lowercase. Period!
With an "intelligent" editor, I can forsee a situation in which I accidentally get my quotes messed up -- one missing near the beginning of the member; one too many near the end. Next thing I know, "boom" ... all of my quoted material converts to uppercase! Thanks, but no thanks!
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