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@alyx OMFG thank you!! I can't count how many times I've googled that and tried everything and none of it worked!
You are a LIFE SAVER!
Now I'm going to write ALL my posts in ALL CAPS FROM NOW ON!
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@alyx Unfortunately I just noticed a major downside of this method: it completely kills my key repeat rate, namely backspace.
Like really kills it. It's painfully slow now. 😞
I'm not sure which is worse, tbh. -
@devios1 I must admit it's not an issue I've run into (as I've remapped my caps key to Esc and use shift for any uppercase stuff), do you really find it that much of a burden?
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@alyx It's so painful to me. I use caps lock all the time to type anything that is more than two letters long. Having to shift back and forth between the left and right shift keys would drive me insane.
Caps lock is just second nature to me now. It's just another key: pinky hits caps lock, type word, pinky hits caps lock.
So I'm not even consciously thinking "I have to hold this one key down a little bit longer than the rest", it just comes out, but thanks to that fucking delay it usually comes out wrong, and it's jarring every time. I KNOW I hit that key. Now I have to back up and do it again. -
@nmunro You're telling me if you had to type something like HTML_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRING you'd have to use the shift key? 😳
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The fucking defective Caps Lock on Apple keyboards drives me fucking ballistic!
WHY would they ever think it would be a good idea to introduce a minimum press time for a key?!?
EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. I use the damn thing it inevitably fails and I have to backspace, delete the non-caps text I just entered after HITTING THE FUCKING CAPS LOCK KEY, tap the damn thing again (harder this time) and try again. It usually takes 2 or 3 tries before it actually catches. I'm sorry, but training myself to type slower is not as easy as you think!
Who the fuck thought up this nonsensical bullshit?? And who the fuck is going around accidentally tapping their caps lock key to the point where such a delay would be needed?? Do you not know where your own fingers are??
Seriously, all this does is penalize fast typists and people who actually want to USE the caps lock key for what it was meant for.
I swear to god this one little thing pisses me off SO much. And what's worse is they don't even give you an option to disable it, AND it's bloody fucking impossible to disable yourself even through the terminal.
(Also, typing this rant with so many caps was probably not as cathartic as I was going for!) 😂
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