We all love you, shifty disco girl.
Nov. 24th, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaNote to self: There is a shift key on the right of the keyboard. Look, it's quite big, just below the enter key. You should consider using it.
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
Because, you see, I don't. I use the left-hand-side shift key pretty much exclusively. Obviously, if the key I'm shifting is on the LHS of the keyboard, this can involve twisting my wrist round awkwardly. If I do it too much (as I seem to have done in the last 24 hours) I end up with quite a painful sensation in the outside of my wrist.
Does anyone have a deliberate policy (or know what their accidental policy is) on shift-key use ? When do you use right or left ?
If you were typing a long string of caps JUST LIKE THIS, how would you do it ? When someone noticed a while back that I occasionally use capslock for this kind of thing there were howls of disgust and derision as if I'd been caught out shagging a donkey, or somesuch. Do you ever use capslock ? Is there an optimal length of a string of letters at which it becomes "worth it" to use the capslock key ?
Further note to self: Hey, there's a Control key over on the right, too! Who'd have thought it ?
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Date: 2004-11-24 03:24 am (UTC)So does mine, unfortunately, this may actually be a bad thing. I do almost all my typing in a text-editor, then on occasion am typing something like this in a browser and I automatically go for some obscure keyboard shortcut, and... bad stuff happens.
My current favourite is selecting a region of text, going for Ctrl-W to cut it, then remembering a smidgeon too late that Ctrl-W in Firefox closes your tab and loses the comment/email/world altering post you were typing :(
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Date: 2004-11-24 05:27 am (UTC)However, I was sure that there's an Extension to do something similar in Firefox. And a quick google found it:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/undoclosetab
It may need some hackery to get working, apparently. ANd I have no idea if it preserves the text you tyoped in a window, or if it just reloads the page that was there - I've not tested it in any way. But I hope it helps. :-)
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Date: 2004-11-24 06:35 am (UTC)