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Article #3868Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs
From: David A. Rogers
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:32
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:32
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:28:21 -0700, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote: > At risk of blasphemy, it seems a good swap would be ESC and Caps_lock. > Especially for us sometimes vi/vim users. > > I haven't really caught on how to write the syntax for .Xmodmap to do that. Ack. Thhbpt. Don't do that. As I write in this group (frequently), it appears to be a little known fact that escape == Ctrl-[. It's a regular ascii key. Just like Ctrl-G is BELL and Ctrl-H is backspace. Given this bit of knowledge, then mapping the CAPS key to ctrl is more useful because it gives you easy access to Escape too. dar
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