[Gllug] [OTish] The greatest test ever

[Ian Norton]

Pete Ryland wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 00:29, David Damerell wrote:
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>
>>On Monday, 6 Jan 2003, Branden Faulls wrote:
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>>>Tet:
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>>>
>>[Caps Lock and Control]
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>>>>So I'm not the only one, then. I used to hate it even *before* I had
>>>>to start remapping it to the control key...
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>>>>
>>>Sorry, I have to ask, you have them swapped? Because one is worn out, 
>>>ala' Stig, or for convenience sake?
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>>>
>>Swapped? Hardly, although swapped is better than in their original
>>positions, because Ctrl is very commonly used. But I never use Caps
>>Lock at all, so I just have them both Ctrl.
>>
>>I also, at work, have moved Esc to where it belongs - to the left of
>>'1'.
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>
>BTW, the reason behind this seeming madness, Brendon, is not worn out
>keyboards.  It's that a lot of people got used to Sun and some VT
>keyboards (any others?) which had the control key where most PC
>keyboards have the capslock.  Since Capslock is rarely used anyway (and
>you can use "g~" in vim for caps), it is common for such people to just
>remap it to another Ctrl.
>
>Also, there was a "compose" key roughly I guess where the Windows key is
>now, so some remap that too.
>
>Actually, come to think of it, the C64 had it's ctrl key somewhere there
>too, didn't it?
>
>Pete
>  
>
well.

the atari st had control where people seem to want it :-) and oddly caps 
was where the other ctrl was :-)

/me misses his help and undo keys :-)

bredroll


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