Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- Subject: Re: Daydreaming (was: Re: 1.3a1)
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:50:02 -0800
On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Ambrose Li wrote:
Sometimes I really hoped that Quartz had never existed, and Apple
had chosen X11 as the foundation of OS X's GUI. This way we could
have changed keymappings using xmodmap, for example, or typed
Chinese using the superior scim system.
God, what a horrible thought. Of course, if we're going to take that
thought to its logical conclusion, then I'll jump in and wish that
we'd never stopped using ASCII terminals. GUIs, pfah, what a terrible
idea when all we really wanted was a terminal to run emacs with!
Everything back in the 1970s was just fine, why did we have to change
a thing?
</sarcasm> :-)
Let's try to keep on target here - comparative window system
discussions is a bit like comparative editor discussions. Nobody wins
the argument and everyone else forced to watch it loses too.
In all other X'es, I have always xmodmapped the useless "Caps Lock"
key to some more useful key like Multi_key or Mode_switch. Alas,
can't do this in OS X, it would have been real nice (daydreaming...)
if there were a way in System Preferences to disable Caps Lock =P
You can most definitely do this in Mac OS X. Go to the Keyboard &
Mouse preferences pane, select Modifier Keys under the Keyboard tab.
Change your Caps Lock key to whatever you like (My VT100 terminal had
a control key there - only further proof that terminals were the last
stop in evolution!)
- Jordan
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