I USE MY CAPS LOCK KEY ALL THE TIME, YOU JERKS.

I use a program on a daily basis that only understands capital letters.

As someone who learned to touch type on a Selectric, I cannot sympathize with really any of these gripes, especially given the number of keyboards that are available on the market, and how easily it is to reconfigure things with shortcuts.

I'm a fairly lazy sort, and I can't say that typing an ellipsis is so damn hard. Nor depressing shift while typing another letter. If this drives you nuts, then you are thinking about it too damn hard. It's just typing, and it's a skill that pretty much everyone should have.

Subby, why you no link to single page version? (new window)

Lando Lincoln: I USE MY CAPS LOCK KEY ALL THE TIME, YOU JERKS.

THIS!!!!!

THERE NEEDS TO BE A SARCASM FONT. THAT IS ALL.

When I was in college, I had this super-old professor who insisted we code in FORTRAN, and as convention dictated, caps lock was used quite frequently.

I always wished there was window-specific caps lock, so I could cap it up in my fortran code without making it look like I was yelling at my friends when I sent them IMs asking for help.

I really think keyboards should have open and close quotes keys. MS Word and other text editors wreak havoc on software documentation and text copy/pasted into web applications by automatically replacing neutral quotes with characters that really just should have been there already.

If I want to enclose something in parenthesis, braces, or brackets, my programming language expects me to use separate start and end delimiters, and my keyboard helps with that. Why not the same for strings?

Theaetetus: Insert/overtype. I farking hate that key.

BUY A KEYBOARD WITHOUT ONE.

AND DON'T TAKE AWAY MY CRUISE CONTROL YOU FARKS.

2wolves: Subby, why you no link to single page version? (new window)

Fixxored.

Theaetetus: EnviroDude: THERE NEEDS TO BE A SARCASM FONT. THAT IS ALL.

Yeah, that would be a really great idea.



Sees what you did there.

If we eliminate the Caps Lock Key how will we know when Drew is drunk and Greenlighting everything?

hubiestubert: I can't say that typing an ellipsis is so damn hard.

I don't think anybody can...

/obligatory

I miss my Sparc keyboard with the COPY/PASTE buttons on left side.

Moderator: 2wolves: Subby, why you no link to single page version? (new window)

Fixxored.

Buíochas a ghabháil leat.

miss diminutive: I want the ability to select lower case text and convert it to upper case and vice versa. BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU REALIZE THAT YELLING IS MORE EFFECTIVE.

In newer versions of Microsoft Word, you can do that with Ctrl-Shift-A, but I don't think there's a way to go from stuff originally typed in caps lock to regular.

How would I tell my guy in Skyrim whether to run or not?

RminusQ: miss diminutive: I want the ability to select lower case text and convert it to upper case and vice versa. BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU REALIZE THAT YELLING IS MORE EFFECTIVE.

In newer versions of Microsoft Word, you can do that with Ctrl-Shift-A, but I don't think there's a way to go from stuff originally typed in caps lock to regular.

Shift-F3 toggles between all caps, title case, and lower case in Word. Very useful, aside from the fact that it capitalizes words it shouldn't (a, and, the, etc.).

SELECT ALL_DAMN_CAPS FROM PEOPLESOFT_DATABASE_FIELDS WHERE (ORIGINAL_DEVELOPERS_DISPOSITION IN ('stressed', 'aggressive', 'obviously excited about something') OR HARDWARE_STATE='stuck in the frigging stone age')

/Ten years of that crap...learned to type with left pinky finger stuck on the shift key.

Yes, let's get rid of the insert key because this retard might hit it by accident and mess up his writing. boo farking hoo.

I'm surprised he didn't go after the pipe/back-slash key while he was at it.

In before Dvorak silliness

ManateeGag: Yes, let's get rid of the insert key because this retard might hit it by accident and mess up his writing. boo farking hoo.

I'm surprised he didn't go after the pipe/back-slash key while he was at it.

Pretty much. To be fair, schools are doing away with touch typing classes, which is a damn shame, because folks are tossing formating documents properly as well.

Two Dogs Farking: RminusQ: miss diminutive: I want the ability to select lower case text and convert it to upper case and vice versa. BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU REALIZE THAT YELLING IS MORE EFFECTIVE.

In newer versions of Microsoft Word, you can do that with Ctrl-Shift-A, but I don't think there's a way to go from stuff originally typed in caps lock to regular.

Shift-F3 toggles between all caps, title case, and lower case in Word. Very useful, aside from the fact that it capitalizes words it shouldn't (a, and, the, etc.).

Wow I wish I had known this long ago.

Bring back the British pound key!

no, we must keep the caps lock key. Drew in keyboard warrior mode = pure win.

Kill it yourself, ya lazy bums.

LOL CAPS LOCK IS FOR biatchES, REAL MEN USE SHIFT

cmunic8r99: In before Dvorak silliness

I've used it for over a decade. My coworkers think I'm a mad computer genius.

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Bring back the British pound key!

Fark that shiat, bring back the pi key!

Bring back mechanical switch and spring buckler keyboards.

That is all.

Calmamity: Kill it yourself, ya lazy bums.

That's too hard for them, and then they don't have the "real estate" freed up by the key, although they biatch about how it's location causes it to be accidentally hit on occasion. Personally, I don't have trouble with CapsLock, it works like it's supposed to for me. Maybe I am over-qualified to write for Slate?