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FREE FROM THE TYRANY OF THE CAPS LOCK!!!!!!!!

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  • L LloydA111

    I write my assembler code in uppercase, so I need caps lock.

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    Stefan_Lang
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    Just press and hold the Shift key for 8s and you're good ;)

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    • J Joan M

      Being this a programming forum I can't unerstand why haven't you created a small app that would allow you to deactivate the caps key. then, depending on your needs you could activate or deactivate the normal behavior.

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      Vasily Tserekh
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      Yes I can do that but it feels a lot better to take a knife and remove it it is more chuck norris

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      • J jeron1

        01101100 01101111 01101100 :laugh:

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        Fabio Franco
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        011011100110111101110100001000000110011001110101011011100110111001111001

        To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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          011011100110111101110100001000000110011001110101011011100110111001111001

          To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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          Ravi Bhavnani
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          • D destynova

            lewax00 wrote:

            I honestly don't know why that key exists, it only causes annoyances...
             
            Luckily, most keyboards now have a dip in the side of the caps lock key where it borders the A key so you can't hit it when you hit the A key. And since my pinky is usually on shift anyways, I don't often hit it accidentally in that case. I do miss Tab on occasion though...

            Why would you ever want to get rid of a key on your keyboard, when you can remap it to something useful - maybe a hotkey to bring up some menu of handy text functions? An easily-reachable hotkey that doesn't require you to press some combination of ctrl-win-rshift-F12... priceless :cool:

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            lewax00
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            Because my keyboard already has 5 macro keys, my mouse has 17 more, and I have another peripheral that's about half of a keyboard - I'm all set on shortcut keys. :laugh:

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              To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

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              • V Vasily Tserekh

                Yes I can do that but it feels a lot better to take a knife and remove it it is more chuck norris

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                Joan M
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                Vasily Tserekh wrote:

                it is more chuck norris

                :rolleyes:

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                • V Vasily Tserekh

                  Recently in a post here someone adviced me to remove that key from my keyboard, and I did it I have been almost a month without that key and I tell you that we dont need that key at all. No more pressing accidentally that key when formating your code or when pressing shift key. give it a try you wont regret.

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                  snowman53
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                  I use this handy little program that treats the Cap's Key as a Shift key, but lets you use Alt Caps when you really want Caps. http://www.worldinabox.co.uk/BoldFinger/[^]

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                  • S Sentenryu

                    you know that word has it right? even word 6... and it's right in the menu bar... (in the ribbon it's less easy to find, but it's there...)

                    I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

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                    jsc42
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                    Sentenryu wrote:

                    you know that word has it

                    No! How did I missed that? Alt-O E G Thank you. That is the most useful thing that I have been told for a long time. Gets my 5 vote.

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                    • L lewax00

                      Because my keyboard already has 5 macro keys, my mouse has 17 more, and I have another peripheral that's about half of a keyboard - I'm all set on shortcut keys. :laugh:

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                      destynova
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                      lewax00 wrote:

                      Because my keyboard already has 5 macro keys, my mouse has 17 more, and I have another peripheral that's about half of a keyboard - I'm all set on shortcut keys. :laugh:

                      Nice! The hotkeys on my keyboard are all at the top, above the F-keys, and not very ergonomically positioned... silly Dell. Also, boring Dell 3-button mouse... that 17-button mouse sounds awesome! I could take over the world with the added productivity of such a beast :-\

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                        lewax00 wrote:

                        Because my keyboard already has 5 macro keys, my mouse has 17 more, and I have another peripheral that's about half of a keyboard - I'm all set on shortcut keys. :laugh:

                        Nice! The hotkeys on my keyboard are all at the top, above the F-keys, and not very ergonomically positioned... silly Dell. Also, boring Dell 3-button mouse... that 17-button mouse sounds awesome! I could take over the world with the added productivity of such a beast :-\

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                        lewax00
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                        My macros are to the left (I tend to hit one of them on occasion thinking it's Ctrl, but there is a gap so it doesn't happen often). This[^] is the mouse I use (the previous model, the two buttons in the middle of the click buttons are on the left side of the left button on mine). Keyboard is the same brand, as is the other peripheral (a Nostromo).

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                        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                          CAPS LOCK IS FOR WUSSIES, I USE THE SHIFT KEY! :D

                          It's an OO world.

                          public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
                          public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
                          }

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                          Mark J Miller
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                          I honestly don't understand. Is this a coolness thing? "I can type w/o caps lock" == "Look ma, no hands!" I don't need it for most things, but a lot of SQL conventions rely on all caps for either keywords (MS SQL) or object names (PL-SQL). For any other language I could understand it, but if you're following conventions then typing a word w/o caps lock doesn't make sense: SELECT TOP 10 * FROM mytable A INNER JOIN myothertable B ON B.ID = A.ID WHERE A.myfilter = 1 ORDER BY B.sortcolumn I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.

                          Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                            KP Lee
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                            Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                            01001001001000000111010001101000011011110111010101100111011010000111010000100000

                            I am MUCH too lazy to even try to figure out if that makes sense. (Other than, ya, that's binary.) OK, I did do a quick check, and I've heard of 8, 12, 16, 32, 60, and 64 bit systems, but 71 bit????? :-D Yes, every number I wrote is in the decimal system. I know, ancient history, but I'm old. (Interesting?: I'm always hitting the caps lock key, usually when I try to hit the shift key. Just did it again, which on this thread is a bit funny. Ha, on or off-humor?)

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                              I honestly don't understand. Is this a coolness thing? "I can type w/o caps lock" == "Look ma, no hands!" I don't need it for most things, but a lot of SQL conventions rely on all caps for either keywords (MS SQL) or object names (PL-SQL). For any other language I could understand it, but if you're following conventions then typing a word w/o caps lock doesn't make sense: SELECT TOP 10 * FROM mytable A INNER JOIN myothertable B ON B.ID = A.ID WHERE A.myfilter = 1 ORDER BY B.sortcolumn I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.

                              Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                              Mark J. Miller wrote:

                              I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.

                              Since it isn't required in SQL, unless I'm thinking about making the code public, I just use lower case. To me, it's just as readable and Thank GOD for ctrl-shift-u when I do decide to make it public. My gripe is that intellisense is really intellistupid in SQL. In C#, it's usually right on for me, but I'm constantly going "NO, you @#$%ing machine! Do what I said, not what you think I asked for!" in SQL. To top it off, I constantly am not hitting the esc button to kill it, typing while looking elsewhere and then find SQL corrected me into gibberish. There are times when it is useful, so usually at that time, it stops working.

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                                Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

                                01001001001000000111010001101000011011110111010101100111011010000111010000100000

                                I am MUCH too lazy to even try to figure out if that makes sense. (Other than, ya, that's binary.) OK, I did do a quick check, and I've heard of 8, 12, 16, 32, 60, and 64 bit systems, but 71 bit????? :-D Yes, every number I wrote is in the decimal system. I know, ancient history, but I'm old. (Interesting?: I'm always hitting the caps lock key, usually when I try to hit the shift key. Just did it again, which on this thread is a bit funny. Ha, on or off-humor?)

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                                Ravi Bhavnani
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                                KP Lee wrote:

                                I am MUCH too lazy to even try to figure out if that makes sense

                                Me too, that's why I use this[^]. :) /ravi

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                                • S Sentenryu

                                  I really can't see how you think this[^] looks like a cigarrete '-'

                                  I'm brazilian and english (well, human languages in general) aren't my best skill, so, sorry by my english. (if you want we can speak in C# or VB.Net =p)

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                                  Sentenryu wrote:

                                  I really can't see how you think this[^] looks like a cigarrete '-'

                                  Well on my keyboard the light parts are dark and the dark are light so it looks different than "this" to me. But, you pretty much need a cigarrete fettish to think it looks like one. I can squint my eyes and sort of see it too.

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                                    I honestly don't understand. Is this a coolness thing? "I can type w/o caps lock" == "Look ma, no hands!" I don't need it for most things, but a lot of SQL conventions rely on all caps for either keywords (MS SQL) or object names (PL-SQL). For any other language I could understand it, but if you're following conventions then typing a word w/o caps lock doesn't make sense: SELECT TOP 10 * FROM mytable A INNER JOIN myothertable B ON B.ID = A.ID WHERE A.myfilter = 1 ORDER BY B.sortcolumn I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.

                                    Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                                    Ease up man, I was just kidding :) Personally I don't like all caps anywhere, not even SQL. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME!!! The company where I work uses all lower case SQL.

                                    select top 10 * from MyTable a
                                    inner join MyOtherTable b on b.ID = a.ID
                                    where a.MyFilter = 1
                                    order by b.SortColumn

                                    Notice how gentle and readable it is? :) Well, I guess it's just a personal preference. Having said that I just never need caps lock... When I do need all caps (like the sentence 'IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME' above) I use my pinky for the shift key. I can do this because I'm kind of a semi-two-finger-typer who sporadically uses different fingers too (but almost never pinkies). When I really need a lot of caps I just use caps lock of course :)

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                                    public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
                                    public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
                                    }

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                                      Mark J. Miller wrote:

                                      I don't use caps lock for most things, but I use it all the time when I'm coding in SQL.

                                      Since it isn't required in SQL, unless I'm thinking about making the code public, I just use lower case. To me, it's just as readable and Thank GOD for ctrl-shift-u when I do decide to make it public. My gripe is that intellisense is really intellistupid in SQL. In C#, it's usually right on for me, but I'm constantly going "NO, you @#$%ing machine! Do what I said, not what you think I asked for!" in SQL. To top it off, I constantly am not hitting the esc button to kill it, typing while looking elsewhere and then find SQL corrected me into gibberish. There are times when it is useful, so usually at that time, it stops working.

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                                      Yeah, SQL intellisense sucks - I turn it off completely, but I'd never heard of ctrl+shift+u. I tried it but it seems a little heavy handed for my taste. I don't capitalize everything, just keywords. For me having everything in caps is the same as everything in lowercase.

                                      Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                        Ease up man, I was just kidding :) Personally I don't like all caps anywhere, not even SQL. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME!!! The company where I work uses all lower case SQL.

                                        select top 10 * from MyTable a
                                        inner join MyOtherTable b on b.ID = a.ID
                                        where a.MyFilter = 1
                                        order by b.SortColumn

                                        Notice how gentle and readable it is? :) Well, I guess it's just a personal preference. Having said that I just never need caps lock... When I do need all caps (like the sentence 'IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHOUTING TO ME' above) I use my pinky for the shift key. I can do this because I'm kind of a semi-two-finger-typer who sporadically uses different fingers too (but almost never pinkies). When I really need a lot of caps I just use caps lock of course :)

                                        It's an OO world.

                                        public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
                                        public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
                                        }

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                                        Mark J Miller
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                                        Sorry, didn't mean to come across like that. I recently got harassed by a couple coworkers about using caps lock (I tried typing on one of their keyboards and the caps lock key was disabled). So maybe I was a little strong because of it. I've been a C# developer for over 10 years but I've done some pretty heavy SQL development in that time, more so than other devs I've worked with. So I guess it's mostly just how I learned it. Like you said "personal preference".

                                        Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                                          Yeah, SQL intellisense sucks - I turn it off completely, but I'd never heard of ctrl+shift+u. I tried it but it seems a little heavy handed for my taste. I don't capitalize everything, just keywords. For me having everything in caps is the same as everything in lowercase.

                                          Code responsibly: OWASP.org Mark's blog: www.developMENTALmadness.com Bill Cosby - "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

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                                          I don't capitalize everything either, so I only highlight the keywords to capitalize them. (double-click the word or start just before it and ctrl-shift right arrow. ctrl-right arrow jumps a word, shift-end highlights to the end of the line, shift-home start. ctrl-shift-l gets lower case if I get too highlight crazy. u/l are SQL specific, the others generally work on text.)

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