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Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs

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From: Paul D. Smith
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:13
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%% Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

  hp> At risk of blasphemy, it seems a good swap would be ESC and Caps_lock.
  hp> Especially for us sometimes vi/vim users.

Ouch; not me.  I still use ESC occasionally, actually.  Sometimes it's
easier to press it first, then some other combination, rather than
trying to wrap your fingers around the combination _plus_ the Meta key,
at the same time.

  hp> I haven't really caught on how to write the syntax for .Xmodmap to
  hp> do that.

Use xkeycaps.

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From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Cool trick :  Ctrl & Caps Lock  Trading Jobs
Date: 23 Aug 2002 11:13:11 -0400
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