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From: Thad Floryan on 7 Mar 2010 20:06
On 3/7/2010 2:24 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
> For those of you emacs users on Windows, if you wish to swap Control
> and Alt key, or make the Caps Lock key to be Control, i wrote some
> Windows utilitiy that does it painlessly.
>
> http://xahlee.org/mswin/autohotkey_swap_capslock.html
>
> Just download and run the executable. You disable it easily too by
> pulling a menu.

You may be interested to know the following free program works on
every version of Windows (including Vista and Win7):

Writeup:

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897578.aspx>

Download:

<http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Ctrl2Cap.zip> [47KB]
From: Futu Ranon on 9 Mar 2010 10:56
On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:44:21 -0500, Paul Donnelly
<paul-donnelly(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thad Floryan <thad(a)thadlabs.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/8/2010 6:53 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
>>> Thanks for the link, i almost forgot about that one.
>>>
>>> though, i created my own mostly for the Ctrl Alt swap, which i haven't
>>> found a easy to use utility.
>>>
>>> personally, i think making Caps Lock as Ctrl is not the best option
>>> for full sized keyboards. See
>>> reasons here for those interested:
>>>
>>> • Why You Should Not Swap Caps Lock With Control
>>> http://xahlee.org/emacs/swap_CapsLock_Ctrl.html
>>> [...]
>>
>> It's really a preference. A person with small hands may have problems
>> if the [Caps Lock] is made to be a [Ctrl], but they will have even a
>> worse problem (and real pain) continuing to use the [Ctrl] key at the
>> lower left of the keyboard.
>
> Somebody ought to invent a keyboard with a control key for each hand.

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm
From: Raymond Toy on 9 Mar 2010 12:31
On 3/9/10 12:00 PM, Thomas A. Russ wrote:
> Paul Donnelly <paul-donnelly(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>> Somebody ought to invent a keyboard with a control key for each hand.
>
> Hmmm. I've been using those for years.
>
> The standard full size Mac keyboard has had control and meta keys next
> to each other at both ends of the keyboard. But some of the smaller
> ones (and the fancy wireless one) don't have the full symmetry.
>

My ancient Omnikey Ultra keyboard has two control keys. And the
capslock and control key are programmable on the keyboard to be
switchable, and it even came with swappable keycaps to show that the
keys were switched.

Too bad I no longer have a computer with a DIN or PS/2 keyboard
connector. I really miss my noisy Omnikey keyboard. (I'm too cheap to
pay for a PS/2 to USB dongle.)

Ray


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