On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:29:37AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> One of the things that's stopped me from buying a laptop and putting
> Linux on it is the keyboard.
>
> To explain: as an old-time Unix person and a vi user, I expect to
> field the control key to the left of the "A" key.
Yes, I hate modern keyboards because of this. Fortunately it's
really easy to turn that useless caps-lock key into a control key.
On Red Hat, it's a one-line patch to /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map
(or whatever file is referenced in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard):
*** us.map~ Tue Oct 31 14:00:07 1995
--- us.map Thu Aug 28 13:36:03 1997
***************
*** 113,119 ****
keycode 57 = space space
control keycode 57 = nul
alt keycode 57 = Meta_space
! keycode 58 = Caps_Lock
keycode 59 = F1 F11 Console_13
control keycode 59 = F1
alt keycode 59 = Console_1
--- 113,119 ----
keycode 57 = space space
control keycode 57 = nul
alt keycode 57 = Meta_space
! keycode 58 = Control
keycode 59 = F1 F11 Console_13
control keycode 59 = F1
alt keycode 59 = Console_1
