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Article #3869Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs
From: Peppe
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:24
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:24
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Thus wrote David A. Rogers <darogers@xnet.com> > 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. While this is true, it is not as readily accessible as Esc on all keyboards. > Given this bit of knowledge, then mapping the CAPS key to ctrl is more useful > because it gives you easy access to Escape too. I'd say this very much depends on your frequency of using Ctrl combos vs. Esc (combos, too) and the accessibility of Esc on your keyboard. Peppe -- Preben 'Peppe' Guldberg __/-\__ "Before you criticize someone, walk peppe@xs4all.nl (o o) a mile in his shoes. That way, if -----------------------oOOo (_) oOOo-- he gets angry, he'll be a mile away http://www.xs4all.nl/~peppe/ - and barefoot." --Sarah Jackson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ff485,b1ecdedf52c5aa0f X-Google-Attributes: gidff485,public X-Google-Thread: 102b9a,b1ecdedf52c5aa0f X-Google-Attributes: gid102b9a,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,b1ecdedf52c5aa0f X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,b1ecdedf52c5aa0f X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-29 10:45:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.nl.linux.org!humbolt.nl.linux.org!transit.news.xs4all.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!xs4all!master.guldberg.net.invalid!nobody From: Peppe <peppe@xs4all.nl> Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs Subject: Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:24:05 +0200 Organization: Home of Peppe Lines: 26 Message-ID: <slrnamslh4.g0.peppe@toy.guldberg.net.invalid> References: <6f8cb8c9.0208221402.c1b75d1@posting.google.com> <p58z2ya6cb.fsf@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <87fzx6w5p3.fsf@pfaff.Stanford.EDU> <m37kihejju.fsf@newsguy.com> <slrnamqhk3.ls.darogers@drogers2k.spss.com> Reply-To: peppe@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: a194-109-188-233.dial.xs4all.nl X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 1030643101 16554 194.109.188.233 (29 Aug 2002 17:45:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 2002 17:45:01 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux)