Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs

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From: Paul D. Smith
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:00

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%% "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:

  >>>>>> "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.

  m> Redundancy!  Yuck!

In Emacs, you can never have too many CTRL keys :).

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

That's what the silly flying window key is for.

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