On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:53:39 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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). > What about the minor change to make the existing behavior unsymmetrical? The editor should, prudently, set CAPS OFF when asked to edit a file containing lower case characters. As we note that's safe and easy to undo with UCC if wrong; but never override an existing setting of CAPS OFF to CAPS ON. I hope that can be justified by objective considerations and not as simply an accommodation to my personal preferences. Perhaps three settings: CAPS ON, CAPS OFF, and CAPS DATA. I'll even willingly admit that an initially empty file "contains no lower case characters" and can be treated as upper case under the CAPS DATA setting, but CAPS ON and CAPS OFF should never be overridden by the editor.
It shouldn't be necessary to compose a profile script to do this. I have no ISPF EDIT profile nor "vi" profile -- I've wasted far too much time composing an XEDIT profile several hundred lines long and a UNIX shell profile -- I'd like to break that addiction. Wandering much further into fantasy ... Nearly all features of modern workstations are under program control -- I know one screen saver which fully darkens the screen and merely twinkles the CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, and SCROLL LOCK to indicate its status. I assume it does this by toggling the associated states of the keyboard; restoring them when awakened. So, suppose an editor set CAPS LOCK on the terminal when appropriate. This would have the desirable effect of making the final state of the characters immediately visible as the programmer typed. And I've often wished the scope of CAPS LOCK were limited to the currently active window: as a bring each window to the fore it should assert its own setting of CAPS LOCK and turn the LED on or off appropriately. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
