It's those little touches...

[kickaha]

http://rentzsch.com/notes/applesantiCAPSLOCK

Synopsis: the Caps Lock on the newest Apple keyboards has a slight delay built in before engaging, somewhere around .25sec, so if you accidentally just tap it, it won't engage. Nice. Personally, I have Caps Lock and Ctrl swapped to put Ctrl back where God intended, to the left of A.

I'll let you know if the Bluetooth version of the keyboard does the same - it's supposed to show up on Monday, currently residing in Hong Kong, according to FedEx tracking.

Comments

Swapped?

[ssandv.livejournal.com]

You don't just rebind it? Who uses caps lock anyway?

Oh I'm so happy now that you reminded me of this; I found the original Johnny Zweig caps lock rant from Usenet, circa 1989 (I loved it so much I printed it out on the Printronix in Terry Hall and taped it to the door of the terminal room...)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.peeves/browse_frm/thread/5abd6c108aec2a86

Hell, I'll just reproduce it. It might be my favorite Usenet post ever (well, except anything Clay Bond(Asmodeus) wrote in alt.flame, but that's a special case...)

I don't know why it hasn't made it to alt.peeves yet, but one of my most
cherished and encouraged pet-peeves is the existence of such a useless,
stupid, nasty, treacherous and evil menace to the progress of humankind
is the CAPS LOCK KEY.

Anyone who has used vi will know that there is no easier way to fuck
up a document than to JJJJJ when you meant to jjjjj. And then there's
those times whEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY HIT THE SONOFABITCH IN THE MIDDLE OF
A SENTENCE. Or if you program in a language other than FORTRAN. Or if
you want to type command names in UNIX. Or.....

In my estimation, the only sensible place for a Caps Lock key would be in
a fairly deeply recessed hole in the back of the monitor, or, preferably,
in another room altogether.

I mean, what the hell is the point of equipping every goddamn keyboard on
the planet with a key that is only used deliberately about 1% of the
times it gets hit? Why not just a "Fuck Things Up Randomly" key? What kind
of stupid moron jackass would sell a piece of equipment with anything so
thoroughly evil right there on the important part? And while I'm in a mood
to name names, I think Sun should be shot for not only having this
abomination in the sight of the Lord on every keyboard, but it doesn't have
tactile-feedback (i.e. click-down/click-up like sensible keyboards), has
no LED to notify the unsuspecting typist of the shit s/he's just gotten
him/herself into. Just because they have nice workstations, people are willing
to put up with this nonsense. Christ! What the hell kind of twisted mind
would perpetrate a crime of such immense proportions on an unsuspecting
public? I suspect Foul Play, and corruption and treachery at very high
levels.

Then again, I just tell my Xdesktop to change the keyboard-mapping to return
to God's cherished mode in which hitting that stupid little fucker DOES
NOTHING AT ALL. SEE HOW NICE IT IS?

-Johnny When-I-want-caps-I'll-hit-the-fucking-Shift-key

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Re: Swapped?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Swapped. Rebound. Same thing. (Another nice detail - hitting the key that Caps Lock is *bound* to controls the light on the key marked Caps Lock. Most keyboards biff this.)

Nice rant, and I completely agree. :) I'm kind of curious as to how this intentional Caps Lock handler works in practice.

[kaneda-khan.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I agree on the stunning uselessness of a FUCK THINGS UP RANDOMLY binding, but having spent ... half my life (holy crap!) as an Emacs user, I think it's important to touch type properly and not favor one hand over the other with modifers like Ctrl and Shift.