Hans Fugal <fugalh / xmission.com> writes:

> Roeland Moors wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> >
> >>Hello ruby-talk,
> >>
> >>i played a little bit with VI because i plan to add a compatibility
> >>mode to ArachnoRuby and i found that returning from input to command
> >>mode with escape breaks the VI rule of leaving your hands on the
> >>keyboard.
> >>
> >>I found that Control-I would be much better (and easy to remember)
> >>then escape.
> >>
> >>Is this just my personal problem or do others feel the same ?
> >>
> >>
> > For me the <esc> is very easy to type on my notebook keyboard,
> > but I have always trouble finding the <ctrl>. It's a small button
> > between <fn> and the windows button. Very annoying, so I try to
> > avoid that button.
> >
> 
> So remap caps to ctrl. caps is not only mostly useless, it's much
> bigger than it should be on most laptop keyboards, but it makes a
> great ctrl.

Or do what RMS does: lug around a Happy Hacking keyboard and disable
your laptop's keyboard.  Also grow a nice beard.