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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Caps Lock Position
Message-ID: <725@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 89 00:36:06 GMT
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In <3101@spudge.UUCP>, johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) writes:
>I find it hard to believe but in over a year of reading this group I have never
>seen anybody complain about the position that the caps lock occupies.

I never bothered complaining, because the caps lock key is in the wrong place
on every single keyboard I know of. To me, the only place for a caps lock key
is 50 ft. or more away from my fingers. :-)

>Am I the only one who tries to hit control characters only to get C or E in my
>text (or whatever)?  When I saw the keymap editor my heart leaped for joy
>because I thought I could make the caps lock into another control key and move
>the caps lock to an unused position.  Unfortunately the keymap editor can't do
>that :-(
>Does anybody have a program which would allow me to fix this "problem"?

I don't think you'll have much luck. The caps lock is a special one, requiring
a press and release for 'key down', and a press and release for 'key up'. I
could be wrong though.

-larry

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