Comments on: The infamous Caps Lock key http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/ Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Achim http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/comment-page-1/#comment-5708 Achim Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:51:58 +0000 http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/#comment-5708 Hi Nathan, I have been searching (apparently in vain) for a way to ENABLE Caps Lock on a german keyboard. German keyboards have a shift lock key, which, from my viewpoint, is about the most useless feature imaginable. You see, in some programming languages capitals are something of a defacto standard. This is most notably true of SQL and (for those old enough to have learned it) Cobol. When I write a DB Adapter in Perl, Java or C#, I want the SQL to stand out. A Caps lock featture would be enormously handy for this. I don't want to "shift" the entire keyboard... just the letters. If anybody out there has an idea how to achieve this, you might try posting it on a support site somewhere. I'll keep looking periodically. I'm sure there are others who could use such a feature. Cheers Achim Hi Nathan,

I have been searching (apparently in vain) for a way to ENABLE Caps Lock on a german keyboard. German keyboards have a shift lock key, which, from my viewpoint, is about the most useless feature imaginable. You see, in some programming languages capitals are something of a defacto standard. This is most notably true of SQL and (for those old enough to have learned it) Cobol. When I write a DB Adapter in Perl, Java or C#, I want the SQL to stand out. A Caps lock featture would be enormously handy for this. I don’t want to “shift” the entire keyboard… just the letters. If anybody out there has an idea how to achieve this, you might try posting it on a support site somewhere. I’ll keep looking periodically. I’m sure there are others who could use such a feature.

Cheers

Achim

]]> By: Nathan Zeldes http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/comment-page-1/#comment-2673 Nathan Zeldes Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:48:15 +0000 http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/#comment-2673 Indeed, Esther. The funny part is that I wrote this post a few days after International Caps Lock Day without being aware of the fact at the time... Indeed, Esther. The funny part is that I wrote this post a few days after International Caps Lock Day without being aware of the fact at the time…

]]> By: Esther http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/comment-page-1/#comment-2669 Esther Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:09:17 +0000 http://designblog.nzeldes.com/2008/10/the-infamous-caps-lock-key/#comment-2669 Hi Nathan - As you know I actually use the CAPS lock key and wouldn't want to get rid of it. But it seems you are not the only one who doesn't like it and has turned it off: http://lifehacker.com/5067438/celebrate-international-caps-lock-day-by-remapping-the-key Hi Nathan – As you know I actually use the CAPS lock key and wouldn’t want to get rid of it. But it seems you are not the only one who doesn’t like it and has turned it off: http://lifehacker.com/5067438/celebrate-international-caps-lock-day-by-remapping-the-key

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