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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat
Subject: Re: CAPS LOCK
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Date: Sun, 18-May-86 20:37:04 EDT
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Keywords: keyboard, standard, ANSI

> 	Who looks at their keyboard?  The ideal place for a CAPS LOCK and/or
> NUM LOCK (if you have one) indication is on the VIDEO TERMINAL STATUS LINE.

Actually, the *ideal* place for such an indicator is on the CURSOR, where
the user's attention usually is.  Most existing video chips are capable of
giving you any one-character-wide rectangle as the cursor, so there would
be no problem in (say) making a flashing underscore a bit fatter when a
shift was in effect.

As for putting it on the status line...  I'd go for that as second-best,
provided the indicator was for SHIFT LOCK, not SHIFT.  Having a SHIFT sign
going on and off in one corner of the screen is a really annoying distraction
when you're typing at speed.
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