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RE: Bidi support for Linux
- To: Boaz Rymland <BRymland(at-nospam)avaya.com>
- Subject: RE: Bidi support for Linux
- From: Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:40:14 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
- Cc: <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <18609D34D984D31183780090279CF7E003966693@ITC-EML1>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
I disagree. I've seen many users who use the CapsLock key instead of the
Shift key to capitalize the first letter of words. I know this is wierd,
but they're quite used to it ( I know of at least one person who types
faster then me using this wierd method of capitalization). I thin kits
unjust to just take that key away from them, because some people feel
strongly about it :-)
Oded
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> hell, i dont know where this thread came from but I'll surely vote with
> Nadav !
> I suggest a petition to Sun equip' makers to switch the CAPS and CONTROL
> keys back to their original locations !
>
> also, check out http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Mezzanine/7944/
>
>
> ;-) boaz
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nadav Har'El [SMTP:nyh@math.technion.ac.il]
> > Sent: Wed 09 May 2001 13:40
> > To: Ivrix Discussions
> > Cc: matial@il.ibm.com; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
> > Subject: Re: Bidi support for Linux
> >
> > On Wed, May 09, 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Bidi support for
> > Linux":
> > > "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> writes:
> > > > Some time ago I was also using the Caps-Lock (which I find a totally
> > useless
> > > > key ever since I stopped programming in Fortran ;),
> >
> > [this is really off-topic, but...]
> >
> > Fortran is case-insensitive, but its users aren't - many of them are used
> > to
> > seeing all code in uppercase, and consider lowercase an abomination. I've
> > seen several Fortran programmers use the Caps-Lock key to type whole
> > sections
> > of code in uppercase. I usually rebelled and entered stuff in lower-case -
> > it
> > was also an interesting way to see which part of the code I wrote, and
> > which
> > part was written by other people :)
> >
> > Anyway, my point is that I don't know *anybody*, except Fortran
> > programmers,
> > who ever use the Caps-Lock key. What good is it? FOR SHOUTING IN EMAILS?
> > It only gets in the way of my left pinkie, once in a while a while causing
> > me to think I'm insane and don't remember my password. I vote for the
> > abolition of the Caps-Lock key. All in favor, type
> >
> > xmodmap -e 'clear lock'
> >
> >
> > --
> > Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, May 9 2001, 16 Iyyar
> > 5761
> > nyh@math.technion.ac.il
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