On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:05:57AM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > >> If perhaps caps lock could be disabled automatically... > > I have never once in the last few years even felt a need to have a caps > lock. It's a wonderfuly useful piece of plastic to press, bound to > justabout the least useful behaviour I can possibly imagine. > > Most people seem to rebind it to some other function: > > * Escape [useful in vim] > > * Control [useful to avoid curling your fingers weirdly] > > * A new modifier; such as Super or Hyper > > I do the latter - all my window manager shortcuts use Hyper, which is > bound to the Caps Lock key. This leaves all combinations of Ctrl and Alt > untouched, meaning applications [such as (g)vim] can use them.
I (partially) agree. I usually swap Caps lock and control, so that on the off chance that I might need caps lock the aforementioned finger curl makes it available. Perhaps I should just disable it completely. As Tony mentioned, Vim might not have control over it. (The terminal emulators seem to provide a method for controlling numlock, but not caps lock). GI -- A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.
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