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Comment by coherentpony | Hacker News Reader

You actually use your caps lock key? I can't remember the last time I used mine and since I was never a Sun guy, I don't even bind it to Ctrl.

Not being snarky, just curious.

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I find Caps Lock quite useful - about half the time when I have login problems, a simple tap on Caps Lock key fixes the issue...

If you are used to binding caps lock to ctrl, the lack of that key is critical. I find it hard to do anything serious on machines without it now...

That's fair. I was assuming the parent commenter implied he or she used their caps lock key for its designed purpose, which in hindsight was perhaps an erroneous assumption.

I swap my left alt and ctrl keys to get anything done, mainly because I ctrl a lot and its useful to do that with my thumb. I can't imagine using caps for it, it is in such a bad position for frequent use.

i use the caps lock key all the time (though you wouldn't know it reading my HN comments...)

any time i need to type more than 3 capital letters in a row, i hit caps lock. i type at 140+ wpm so holding down shift while typing reduces my speed by a significant amount. it's easier to hit caps lock and then hit it again when i'm done. it doesn't take any time.

examples of needing caps lock:

$LONG_VARIABLE_OR_CONST_NAMES

LABELS IN DIAGRAMS AND CODE:

3. CERTAIN FORMS LIKE PURCHASE ORDERS AND INVOICES ARE TRADITIONALLY IN ALL CAPS (QTY 2)

IMPORTANT NOTES IN MEMOS!!! to myself and others

i use it at least a half dozen times a day.

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