Does anyone actually use CapsLock (the functionality*), and if so what for?
*(Not counting remapping the physical button to some other, useful, function).
*(Not counting remapping the physical button to some other, useful, function).
Removing the CapsLock key would piss off a lot of people in the hardware engineering world.
As a side note I noticed that some keyboards implement CapsLock wrong: when CapsLock is on, pressing "9" should generate "9" and not ")". Otherwise it would be called ShiftLock, which is a lot less useful.
(This is a genuine question, because I’m confused why one wouldn’t do it that way—I think it probably never even occurred to me to use Caps Lock for such a purpose, given that the modeless Shift key was right there.)
Normally I would just lock shift (sticky keys rock), but '.' happens in realm names, and shifting it isn't useful, so I use capslock for that.
That's about the only time I use capslock. Otherwise it's sticky keys all the way.
“Execute this SQL against the ‘XYZ_DB’ PostgreSQL database.”
“When I requested the HTML file over HTTP, I saw a CAPTCHA.”