Was caps lock ever useful? Or has it always been a conspiracy to reserve one of the most accessible keys to be remapped and used for shortcuts/macros as the user sees fit?
ITT: post your uses for CAPSLOCK. e.g. media controls, vim/emacs emulation, window/tab navigation, etc.
i remapped mine to ">" so it's my dedicated shitposting key
Caps lock is just a meme and doesnt deserve its space on the keyboard.
I use it as melee in my GAYMES
ITS SO USEFUL FOR THE DINOSAURS WHO ARE JUST DISCOVERING THE INTERNET
> Not using the caplocks key to capitalise the first letter of a word.
WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM
It's great if you're programming in languages where keywords are caps.
I use it for push to talk in games
>CURENT YEAR 2017
>NOT USING CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL AS INTENDED
Command
It used to be useful when writing in caps was basically the only way to emphasize text. Also
annoying-ass windows variable names
I made shift hold for a character, and a double tap of shift caps lock.
I actually don't use shift for typing, just caps lock.
Capslock is Control.
t. emacs user.
Use it to switch between two languages. The indicator on the keyboard really helps.
as if americunts can speak a second language.
>was caps lock ever useful?
yes, for filling out forms because as a personal preference i like everything all caps for official docs and company docs
When I was in elementary school my friend was doing that. Even as an 8 year old I knew it was retarded.
Shame on you fuck
setxkbmap -option
caps:ctrl_modifier'
xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'
underrated kek
I use it as push to talk for mumble
Caps lock key is your key tool in winning internet arguments
it's useful for printing labels or doing radio things where nothing is case sensitive anyway
I use it to type captchas that are in all caps
I used it as push to talk, the placement was absolutely perfect if you used WQES while playing video games
>He doesn't use immutable globals for important magic numbers and strings
At least I now know I'm not alone. It always felt easier then going to shift
the caps lock key is too wide for me to be bitter about its occupying space while serving no purpose in my life
Its great for larping as an ancient roman before miniscule letters were invented
actually i thought one of those renigger infographics said they weren't case-sensitive
it claimed the way captcha worked was one word was specific, the other you could replace with "nigger" to avoid teaching google's robot
I don't know. Nigger sometimes works for me and sometimes it doesn't. I never really figured out why.
i think slanted words definitely weren't known by the robot already
inkblot captchas, i think there was a time when both words were inkblots, it was hell, the infographic might no really be reposted today so who knows if it actually contained tips
Yeah but nowadays I just get signs.
>Press caps lock
>Cap falls off
There's no reason that couldn't be done with a modifier key
I showed a girl from China that holding down the Shift key does the same thing Caps Lock and she almost had an orgasm.
hot
It's a carry over from mechanical typewriters. If you've ever used one you know why it's important to have a key. Holding down shift on those is not easy as you're displacing the entire mechanism to get another shelf of stamps (hence the name 'shift'. If you want to make an all caps line (and you're likely to do that on a typewriter as you don't have more than one character size) it makes life much easier.
On a computer it's mostly useless.
>me ruv u rong tierm
I knew a girl who used caps lock instead of shift for capital letters.
Like, she would turn caps lock on, type the first letter in a sentence then turn caps lock off and type the rest.
I was baffled, tried explaining how to use shift but she said she prefers her way.
I USE IT WHEN I NEED TO TYPE A SENTENCE OUT IN CAPS
duh you fucking retard
I keep it on to capitalize the first letter then hold shift for the rest of the sentence
I work remote support for a MSP in my area. Some users like to keep their caps lock on, so when I try to type something such as a password when I'm remotely controling their machine, it inverts everything. That's the only reason I use caps, to avoid extra stupid steps because of end users.
toggle walk/run in games. I can tell which is on if the little capslock light is on
it's a lazy push-to-talk for voip. just hit the caps lock to speak and never let it go so others can hear your loud breathing over the microphone.
When you are inputting lots of uppercase data, yes.
Remapped to another super key because I use two model Ms daily
I used to play subspace/continuum and remapped repels to it. So I would alternate between yelling in chat, good times.
English.
On the colemak keyboard, caps lock is remapped to backspace
CAPSLOCK was always useful and you would see that if you stepped outside the hackernews hivemind
I bet you also think that the numeric keypad is useless
setxkbmap -option "ctrl:swapcaps"
You can thank me later.
>Use capslock for PTT in something
>Keyboard toggles the light with each press despite it not being used as a toggle
Triggered.
I use it for window positioning, to slow the mouse to speed 1, and for various hotkeys to prevent collision with other hotkeys.
I still keep the original capslock function though. For programming, headings and other uses. I could easily map it to double / triple tap of shift. (which thinking about it now would have saved a ton of headaches when writing said capslock modifier code)
Capslock is a great key to use as a modifier key since fucking nothing else uses it. (due to it not being a modifier key)
Equally good keys for that are the "apps key" / context key, Insert, right super / windows key.
But in the case of Insert, I also block its normal use because FUCK Insert. Worst key ever created. Fuck Overwrite especially. I've never had a valid use for overwrite. If it had an LED to show its status, I would care, but it doesn't, so fuck it 100%.
My girlfriend does this, it drives me nuts but now i've caught mysef doing it from time to time.
This mostly
Genius.
>not having capslock always on and pressing shift to type every thing but the first letter
I thought I was the only one
In 20 years of me using a keyboard, I have never used caps lock for its intended purpose. Rebinding it in macOS to change switch language is very handy. It doesn't even turn on the LED if you rebind it.
Its useful for CAD as everything is done in all caps for greater illegibility
Use it as a talk toggle instead.
So you look at the light to see if it's on
This is how you can tell Sup Forums doesn't know how to program. Many coding conventions caps lock properties.
I use capslock for capitalizing letters. Using shift is too weird for me, plus I've already developed an ability for hitting capslocks, then my capital letter, then hitting capslock again just perfectly naturally and fast with my pinky.
>Not Using The Caps Lock Key To Capitalise The First Letter Of Every Single Word
Capslock is Esc.
t. evil user.
Everyone on this website speaks Japanese.
Is this comic right to left or left to right? The last panel throws me off. I don't know if the second bagel is a reaction to the "nooo" or if the "nooo" is because he didn't want a bagel.
Control and escape are in fine spots. I never understood swapping either of those. I think control was actually there on older keyboards and the hhkb, so that's one thing, but I don't understand escape. If anything, I want to remove capslock from the board entirely and then add a brand new key there for macros or something.
When are keyboards going to do what software keyboards on phones do, where pressing shift is sticky, pressing it twice is like caps lock, and holding it is like a normal shift? I guess maybe you could do this on programmable keyboards.
I remaped it to escape for Max Comfines using vim
caps lock was invented so we could solve captchas on Sup Forums easier 40 years later
no racemo but why do black people do this?
>Not using Caps Locks for its actual function.
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i do the same thing, seriously trying to kick the habit but i can't
t. 135wpm software dev
CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
remapped mine to a left FN key. My keyboard uses WASD also as UP/LEFT/DOWN/RIGHT and since I also don't have an Function key row and the numbers doubles as that with the FN key it's super comfy to hold with the pinky finger the CapsLock key and press F1 or use WASD as arrows
what are those dingleberries on the space bar
left click, middle click, right click
I remap Caps Lock to Compose on all my machines. Compose is a much better key and should've gained widespread use instead.
what kind of advanced level of autism is this?
I have a weird habit of typing a capital letter in a sentence using CAPSLOCK instead os using shift, pretty weird lol but I'm just used to it.
You don't know how horrible this is in a language like German where every noun is with a capital letter in front.
Du hast ja keine Ahnung, wie schrecklich das ist in einer Sprache wie Deutsch wo jedes Nomen mit großem Anfangsbuchstaben geschrieben wird.
RETARD
the reason i mention i'm a software dev is that iHaveToWriteShitLikeThisAllFuckingDay
i have a disease
do you have a tex yoda?
yes, great little keyboard.
Even in this case, I still don't get it. It's easier to just hold down shift while you're typing in all caps than it is to manage the caps lock toggle state.
Even if you like it better, you could just map caps-lock+c to toggle caps lock. There's really no reason to have such an accessible key handle such a niche use case exclusively.
snake_case_?
only javaFags use camelCase
That's basically what I do. I just consider it *my* key, that I can do whatever I want on without colliding with anything for easy global hotkeys.
This reminds me how I use the c stick + a button to charge smashes in SSB
I use capslock for capitalisation
It's easier for me to tap caps twice with my index than it is to hold shift with my pinkie or move the index finger to hold shift.
I use it to sign into my Sup Forums pass, since the user is case sensitive AND all caps, for some reason.
its for old people and shitty programming languages
>not having caps lock always on and holding shift when you want to type normally
scroll lock is a key that i have never seen used by anything and it has a status led too
I frequently use it.