On Aug 7, 2011 11:49 PM, "Mark Linimon" <linimon_at_lonesome.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > I initially chose "traditional Unix workstation", which was unusable. > > (Never did find the control or escape key, which made vi particularly > > difficult to use.) > > It should probably be labeled "old-fart Unix user" which would have > instantly told me that it put the Control key back in the pre-IMB-PC > location (where the idiotic and counter-productive 'Caps Lock' key is > now, sigh). > > But that battle was lost several decades ago. And it all happened so that Microsoft could squash Wordstar (or, was it Word Perfect). I still create my own .kbd file to do what I want. the us.unix has several oddities, like swapping hte <ESC> key with the accent grave that I don't care for. I even re-map the CapsLock key on my Windows system. The war may be over, but my little battle will end only when I can't hack a keyboard layout any more. I will also mention that Gnome has the re-mapping available in System->Preferences->Keyboard Layout Options. In fact, you can either swap CapsLock and Ctrl_L or replace CapsLock with Ctrl_L. This proves I am not the only one refusig to give in to MS. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Retired kob6558_at_gmail.comReceived on Mon Aug 08 2011 - 17:45:41 UTC
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