WHY DO KEYBOARDS STILL HAVE THIS KEY THAT SWITCHES ITSELF ON AND MAKES THINGS LOUD?
WHO ACTUALLY USES THE CAPS LOCK KEY AS A CAPS LOCK?
Smart people use the Shift key as a kind of caps lock, by making it sticky with a double-tap. Allows better use of that key on the home row, by turning it into a Tab, for example.
How do you go about doing that, exactly? It sounds interesting.
I do some magic in the
layout I use. QMK has this nice feature of one-shot modifiers, where I can mark a modifier as such, meaning that if I tap it once, the next key pressed within a small timeframe will have the modifier applied, without me having to hold it. If I double-tap the modifier key, it will stay on until toggled off with a third press, so all keys pressed inbetween will have it applied. If I hold it, it works as usual.
This does a bit more than Capslock, because it applies the modifier to all keys, and doesn't just make alphas CAPITAL letters.
Having shift on the thumb cluster of an ErgoDox, behaving this way, is like typing heaven for my fingers. And I gain another key on the keyboard, which I can put to better use than a dedicated caps key.
