>> Also, the "sticky keys" keyoard setting has no effect on coke stains.
>>
>
> I coughed and spit some water on my monitor once. There's still a dark
> splotch near the bottom where the pixels are dead.

When I was a child, we got a shiny new Acorn A3010 for Christmas. My 
sister spilt Ribena around the Delete key area, so even many years later 
that key always got stuck down if you pressed it. I got into such a 
habit of never using that key (as it would end up deleting everything 
after the cursor before you could wiggle it back up), that even today it 
feels dangerous to use it.

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>> And consider--if you can get U and I to work, you can live without caps
>> lock.  :)
>
> Yeah, that thought had already crossed my mind, too ;)

German caps lock should be called shift lock.

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Am 02.02.2016 um 09:20 schrieb scott:
>>> And consider--if you can get U and I to work, you can live without caps
>>> lock.  :)
>>
>> Yeah, that thought had already crossed my mind, too ;)
> 
> German caps lock should be called shift lock.

As a matter of fact it is called Feststelltaste (loosely translating to
lock key), and typically labelled ⇩ (loosely translating to downward
arrow) :P

As for its function, that depends on the keyboard driver you're using.
On Windows for instance, the "Deutsch (Standard)" keyboard driver
follows the German official norm, which continues the tradition of
mechanical typewriters to have the key operate as shift lock, but German
keyboard drivers do exist that configure it as caps lock, such as the
"Deutsch (IBM)" keyboard driver on Windows.

Obviously the "Deutsch (Standard)" use of the key is the more
straightforward: Locked state matches the shifted state, and that's
that. On the other end of the spectrum, the "Deutsch (Schweiz)" not only
restricts the function of the key to the letter keys, but goes so far as
to make some keys yield results that differ from both the shifted and
unshifted sate.

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>> German caps lock should be called shift lock.
>
> As a matter of fact it is called Feststelltaste (loosely translating to
> lock key), and typically labelled ⇩ (loosely translating to downward
> arrow) :P
>
> As for its function, that depends on the keyboard driver you're using.
> On Windows for instance, the "Deutsch (Standard)" keyboard driver
> follows the German official norm, which continues the tradition of
> mechanical typewriters to have the key operate as shift lock, but German
> keyboard drivers do exist that configure it as caps lock, such as the
> "Deutsch (IBM)" keyboard driver on Windows.

If only I'd known it was as simple as changing my keyboard driver to IBM...

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On 2-2-2016 15:18, clipka wrote:
> ... both the shifted and
> unshifted sate.
>

Yum yum... What kind of dressing goes with that? ;-)

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Thomas

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On 2/3/2016 8:21 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 2-2-2016 15:18, clipka wrote:
>> ... both the shifted and
>> unshifted sate.
>>
>
> Yum yum... What kind of dressing goes with that? ;-)
>

A chemise. And when un-shifted makes the eyebrows rise. ;-)

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Regards
     Stephen

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On 3-2-2016 10:24, Stephen wrote:
> On 2/3/2016 8:21 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 2-2-2016 15:18, clipka wrote:
>>> ... both the shifted and
>>> unshifted sate.
>>>
>>
>> Yum yum... What kind of dressing goes with that? ;-)
>>
>
> A chemise. And when un-shifted makes the eyebrows rise. ;-)
>

Ah! We here have a little difficulty I overlooked. I read "sate" 
(Indonesian and popular in NL) as the pieces of pork pricked on a stick 
and generally served with peanut sauce. However, I like your reading of 
the word :-)

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Thomas

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If you choose the multicoloured keyboard for inspiration, it can cost a few
bucks more ...
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MVT7AYW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

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Am 04.02.2016 um 20:07 schrieb Theogott:
> If you choose the multicoloured keyboard for inspiration, it can cost a few
> bucks more ...
>
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MVT7AYW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00

That don't impress me much; what I'm after is a few more dedicated macro
keys.

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On 4-2-2016 20:07, Theogott wrote:
> If you choose the multicoloured keyboard for inspiration, it can cost a few
> bucks more ...
>
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00MVT7AYW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
>

What's the use of the colours? looks like gadgetry.

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Thomas

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