my new keyboard layout has “caps word” functionality (think caps lock but just for a single word) and my god traditional keyboard manufacturers need to get with the times

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@molly0xfff @beep In 1994, I was in a high school keyboarding class (we were using PCs), and the guy next to me was unaware of the shift key, so he would press caps lock, type a capital letter, and press caps lock again to resume lowercase typing. That’s how he thought you got capital letters. I showed him what the shift key does, and he didn’t like it because he’d have to press both keys at the same time. Dude needed a “caps letter” key!

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@molly0xfff the future is now.

[mattly@hachyderm.io]

@molly0xfff I set this up on my Iris a few years ago and it’s literally the best thing I did since moving to an ortho/ergo layout

[pjakobs@mastodon.green]

@molly0xfff I will not be able to unthink this idea, it's as simple as it has been necessary for the last 50 years or so

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@ramsey @molly0xfff @beep

Funny that our phones now use a virtual shift key that locks only until the next key is pressed.

Your classmate may have anticipated this development... or caused it.