In message , R.Wieser
writes:
Hello all,

Poked along by an article on slashdot (
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/...-time-to-get-r
id-of-the-caps-lock-key) I
decided that I would just that and "get rid of" the capslock key - by
remapping it (got bitten a few times by what the article described :-) )
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There seems to be a lot of hatred of the Caps Lock key/function!

The _main_ reason for the dislike (not the only one, granted), seems to
be from people who hit it by mistake and don't realise until they've
tyPED SEVERAL WORDS WITH IT ON.

There's an alert that you've done that, called Toggle Keys: it's been
part of Windows since at least XP. It's for some reason hidden under
accessibility (disabled access) - I guess partly because other features
for helping the disabled also are related to the keyboard, and partly
because they weren't sure where else to put it. How to get to it varies
slightly between Windows versions; on this Win7-with-classic-shell, one
way is Start | Settings | Control Panel | Ease of Access Centre | Make
the keyboard easier to use. On XP, IIRR it was under Accessibility.

I use Caps Lock once in a blue moon, but I don't mind it being there.

There doesn't seem to be the same hatred of Scroll Lock, which I'm
unaware of having _any_ function since DOS days; I've very occasionally
come across a novelty or utility that uses it. Granted, it's harder to
hit accidentally, but at least Caps Lock _has_a function
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