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That was a great idea to put a "search" key in place of a caps lock key. I search all the time, and haven't (intentionally) used caps lock once my entire life.

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Seriously – good riddance. Now what could the "insert" key be replaced by?

What about those of us who use CAPS LOCK as another CONTROL key (for Emacs)?

I think your missing the fact that Emacs wont run on this OS.

Emacs won't run? Then why would I want to use it? What about all my Lisp code?

And why on earth do I want to give Google so much control of my OS? And full control of my laptop? Maybe I should just give bots from outer space full control of my workspace.

Not sure this OS is for you.

Why is this being upvoted? It neither contributes to the conversation nor is it interesting. It amounts to uninformed opinion dreg.

You can share opinions on HN. It is my opinion that ChromeOS is more than a little likely to fail. There is too much the web can't replace. And the Chrome web app store? Meh. I hope it fails. I'd love to start paying $4 for all those crappy flash/javascript games. "Installing" web pages? Who came up with this nonsense?

See. I just shared some opinions. Feel free to share your own.

Our opinions also amount to reviews. This is a new product, and we're speculating about how we would review it had we tried it.

You're right, I didn't know that. I would imagine, though, that Emacs will eventually be ported to Chrome.

Web-based "Emacs": http://www.ymacs.org/

Awesome - they've fixed C-n since this was first posted on HN!

Actually it will run, you can switch to console mode and install any app you want.

You'll be able to do that within Chrome OS.

I didn't notice that. I hope you can swap it out with control. I've used that for so long it would be annoying to have to relearn.

How do you type acronyms like NASA?

or legacy table names

It's faster to hold shift. Caps Lock + n + a + s + a + Caps Lock is 6 keys, vs Shift + n + a + s + a is only 5 keys.

But I use both fingers for the letters in NASA so I would normally have to hold 2 different shift keys. Are you saying you hold just one shift and type the rest of the letters with your other hand

I hold the left shift key and type NASA with the rest of my fingers. Just because a finger is tied up holding down a key doesn't mean the rest of the fingers cannot also be used. :)

Hold left shift with left pinky. Type n-a-s-a with both hands. I honestly have no idea how else you would do it. Hitting caps lock seems like such a waste of time.

How is it a waste of time when caps lock is as close to my little finger as shift is and I can type normally for those few letters?

Because you have to press it twice. I tried both and shift was definitely easier.

Except that NASA has two a's -- which I would normally type with my left pinky. // That being said -- I instinctively type it exactly as you describe.

THIS WHOLE THREAD IS RIDICULOUS!

nasa<ctrl-space><meta-b><C-xC-u>?

Maybe emacs loses this round...

nasa<meta-b><meta-u>

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