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Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs

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From: Stefan Monnier foo
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:12
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <psmith@gnu.org> writes:
> Why even bother to bind the caps lock key at all?  I never need it.  I
> bind my CAPS LOCK key as a CTRL key, but _don't_ change the original
> CTRL, so _both_ keys are CTRL.

Redundancy!  Yuck!
Better use that silly "ctrl" key as Hyper (in my case, only my
window-manager uses Hyper in its bindings).

> Now if anyone wants to use my keyboard and they're used to having CTRL
> down where it is on PC keyboards, they will be happy too.

And now if someone wants to use my keyboard, I get a good laugh.


        Stefan
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Subject: Re: Cool trick :  Ctrl & Caps Lock  Trading Jobs
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