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

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Thu Jul 31 11:27:20 EDT 2003


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Derek Martin wrote:

| I would also point out that a PC-style keyboard is closer to a manual
| typewriter keyboard, which has been around MUCH longer than Sun
| workstations have.  Which is no doubt why it was designed that way...
| I'm inclined to think that those who hate capslock, and who prefer sun
| keyboards, either learned to type on Suns, or never learned at all.
|

I learned on an Apple ][.  IIRC: No caps lock.  No shift key (unless you
did the shiftkey mod).  The control key was to the left of A.  " was
over the 2 key.  Lots of wierd keyboards in those days, some good, some bad.

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EMACS == Esc Meta Alt Control Shift
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