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pyotr filipivich wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> on Wed, 6 May 2026 15:43:58
-0500 typed in alt.comp.os.windows-11 the following:

"A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and >>IBM organizational structures" by Raymond Chen

<snippage>

Ok, that resolution is funny.

I just wish "they" had left the Tab key above the shift key. I'm
still hitting CAPS LOCK when I meant to tab over after all these
years.

I convert CapsLk to a control key:

setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

And to not have to reach for the Esc key, I use a little program
called "xcape".

<https://flenniken.net/blog/xcape/>

The github site(s) are 404, but one can install xcape in Debian
and Arch at least. It has a man page.

I have it set up so that a brief (< 500ms) press on CapsLk acts
like Esc. With a long press it acts like a Ctrl key.

More info here:

<https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/r23z4b/til_people_on_macos_you_can_map_caps_lock_to/>
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On 2026-05-09 01:18, pyotr filipivich wrote:

I just wish "they" had left the Tab key above the shift key. I'm
still hitting CAPS LOCK when I meant to tab over after all these
years.

Doesn't happen to me.

Instead, when typing blind, sometimes the little finger instead of
hitting the "a" hits the caps lock, and instead of the 's' I hit the
'A', etc.
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

rCLA dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft
and IBM organizational structuresrCY by Raymond Chen
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298

[SNIP]

This post has triggered a lengthy discussion across four newsgroups.

It has nothing to do with the C or C++ programming languages.

The article is interesting, but Lynn, please don't post to clc or
clc++ unless there's some relevance to C or C++.

Everyone else: Please consider trimming the newsgroups if you post
a followup.
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On Sat, 9 May 2026 13:58:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Instead, when typing blind, sometimes the little finger instead of
hitting the "a" hits the caps lock, and instead of the 's' I hit the
'A', etc.

My caps-lock key doesnrCOt do Caps Lock. ThatrCOs not a function I feel
any need for. Instead, I have repurposed it as the Compose key <https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey>.
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On Sun, 10 May 2026 03:40:33 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 9 May 2026 13:58:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Instead, when typing blind, sometimes the little finger instead of
hitting the "a" hits the caps lock, and instead of the 's' I hit the
'A', etc.

My caps-lock key doesnrCOt do Caps Lock. ThatrCOs not a function I feel
any need for. Instead, I have repurposed it as the Compose key <https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey>.

So maybe you'd want to drop the windows NG
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On 2026-05-10 05:40, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 9 May 2026 13:58:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Instead, when typing blind, sometimes the little finger instead of
hitting the "a" hits the caps lock, and instead of the 's' I hit the
'A', etc.

My caps-lock key doesnrCOt do Caps Lock. ThatrCOs not a function I feel
any need for. Instead, I have repurposed it as the Compose key <https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey>.

I have repurposed the Windows key as Compose. I have not needed yet to repurpose caps lock. I might put it as the Meta key, but as I don't use
Emacs, I felt no need.
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Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Sat, 9 May 2026 13:58:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Instead, when typing blind, sometimes the little finger instead of
hitting the "a" hits the caps lock, and instead of the 's' I hit the
'A', etc.

My caps-lock key doesnrCOt do Caps Lock. ThatrCOs not a function I feel
any need for. Instead, I have repurposed it as the Compose key <https://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey>.

Lawrence, you edited the Newsgroups: line. Why did you keep
comp.lang.c?
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On Sun, 10 May 2026 12:34:37 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

I have repurposed the Windows key as Compose.

I find that (aka the rCLSuperrCY key) far more useful for other purposes,
as an extra modifier key. It doesnrCOt seem to be used in any standard
key sequences in Emacs, for example. So I use it to define a bunch of
custom ones (fewer keystrokes than with the
reserved-for-user-definition CTRL-C prefix).

Also I have it defined in my window manager as a replacement for Alt
for window positioning functions. That way it doesnrCOt clash with
various useful Alt-click functions in Blender.
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