I have no capslock and I must scream

Re:I have no capslock and I must scream by petepete on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:31PM (#30422150)

I use a HHKB mainly because it has a correctly positioned control key. I wish other companies would make them this way too - caps lock just isn't useful.

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Re:I have no capslock and I must scream by cole-k on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:02PM (#30423248)

Genuine question: have you had problems with software remapping before?

I discovered the joys of control-in-place-of-caps-lock when I bought an HHKB, but I got it because I liked it as a keyboard. Since then I've had no trouble converting caps-lock into control with other keyboards.

If you don't mind an unrelated anecdote, while I got used to the diamond-shaped arrow keys of the HHKB, I kind of wish they would have been hjkl or just on the keyboard itself. I find that I still need to use arrow keys too much for that layout to be comfortable.

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Re:I have no capslock and I must scream by petepete on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:24AM (#30426541)

I have no real problem with remapping, I do it on my ThinkPad for when I'm not at my desk.

Really it boils down to the fact that I dislike the capslock key taking up valuable real estate. From my perspective has no real use, I never type more than the odd word in caps. I want to reward companies who omit it in the hope more will follow.

I use vim so hjkl are natural to me, but I got used to the diamond in short order and don't have any issues switching between them.

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Re:I have no capslock and I must scream by phonepostingsux on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:35PM (#30446071)

> I want to reward companies who omit it in the hope more will follow.

Let's hope not, I really like my comfortable ectra escape key. The pictures I saw when quickly searching for HHKB looked incomplete to me, control is fine in the corner!

Hopefully we'll have all options though, a comfortable keyboard is a must.

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