>I'll invoke history to prove my point: The shift lock (caps lock is smart,
>shift lock just upped everything... What more do you expect from a lever?)
>on typewriters was above the shift key. You clicked it in, and then hit
>shift to disengage it.
>
>Of course, it only feels unnatural to me because I'm a PC101 Intel weenie.
History is bunk. Look at what the evidence of your hands tells you. How
often do you invoke ctrl and how often capslock. Then look how far the
native ctrl key on the PC keyboard is from the a key. Look at the angle
of twist your left hand has make with the native ctrl key. Basically
from an ergonomic point of view IBM got this one wrong. Perhaps they
were extrapolating from the Selectric keyboard. Or maybe they were
expecting few uses of ctrl with early PC apps.
One of the first things I do with a new Linux setup is swap capslock and
ctrl. Some people even go further and map capslock to ctrl, i.e. no
capslock left. I'm beginning to think that makes sense too.
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