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Looks like Pieter Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has a bone to pick with the often accidentally-pressed, close-to useless key. He's already started a blog called Capsoff and also a forum at Google Groups.
"The Caps key is an abomination," Hintjens writes on his blog. "It's a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it's only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers."
Cool. Good point, however we need a devil's advocate p.o.v.: WHAT IF YOU NEED TO SHOUT AND YOU'RE NOT SO GOOD AT PINKY PILATES?
What side are you on? If you're con, you know where to go (see above). If you're pro, make sure to celebrate Interational CAPS LOCK day.
Funny how is this key is spelled in all lowercase letters on Mac keyboards.
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I don't want to sign up for a Blogger account and jump in this conversation so I will comment here:
Architects and Engineers use capslock for most of their specs and drawings. Anybody with an architect friend who likes to chat/email all day is used to quick all-caps notes coming in their inbox. I agree that they CapsLock button is in a tough spot but it does need to be somewhere.
Sure its a useful key in many situations- my beef is with it being so close to the 'a' key. We could switch it with the 'tab' so easily, and only slip into screaming mode when we overshoot the 'q.'
We don't need the caps lock. Fortran programmers don't need it because Fortran is case insensitive. Maybe COBOL programmers...
If you ant a keyboard with CTRL in the right place, look for the Happy Hacker.
The CAPSoff website mentions the Colemak keyboard layout. That layout suggests replacing the useless Caps Lock key with Backspace. It makes sense, because when I hit the backspace key I must move my hand from the home row and twist my wrist.
http://colemak.com/