The lack of need for Caps-Lock (was laptop keyboard replacement)

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Thu Jul 31 10:02:51 EDT 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:38:08AM -0400, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> Kevin D. Clark writes:
>  > 
>  > Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> writes:
>  > 
>  > > I have to agree.  I can't fathom why so many techies/coders make such
>  > > comments...  How do you type 
>  > > 
>  > >   open( LOGFILE, O_RDWR | O_EXCL | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY | O_SYNC | O_NOFOLLOW,
>  > >   	S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP );
>  > > 
>  > > without using CAPSLOCK?  Only painfully, I would think...
>  > 
>  > open( logfile, o_rdwr | o_excl | o_creat | o_nonblock | o_noctty | o_sync | o_nofollow,
>  >    	s_irusr | s_iwusr | s_irgrp | s_iwgrp );
>  > C-p C-a M-f 
>  > 
>  > and then hold down the M-u key for a while.
> 
> 	Or, in this particular case, after typing the semicolon (or at least
> the close parenthesis):
> 
>     C-@ C-M-B C-X C-U
> 
> 	You may have to follow this with a space (or a "Y" or a "!") if
> C-X C-U is in its default disabled state.
> 
> 	So I guess that what we're saying is that people who don't use
> emacs need Caps-Lock, because their editors are toys?  (For the humor
> impaired: :^) )

^W <C-V> $U

Or more equivalently:

<C-V> ?( <enter> U

:-)

-- 
Bob Bell



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