John,

There seems to be a lot of hatred of the Caps Lock key/function!

No hate involved here. Annoyance at most - at myself, for /again/ having
pressed it.

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.

Yep, exactly that one. :-\ And as I can't remember having ever needed the
capslock (and the change is easily reversable) I took the opportunity to see
what it is to live without it.

Currently I've remapped it to left-shift, but was wondering if I could make
it a dead key (redirect to 0x0000)

There doesn't seem to be the same hatred of Scroll Lock

:-) That one isn't living just below the TAB, above the LEFT-SHIFT and left
of the A key.

But yes, that one doesn't have had a general use for as long as I have used
x86 machines. Though its (again) useful to me, as my KVM uses it as a
command trigger (press twice and than 1 ... 4).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser