Re: Newbie: Emacs Advice

Matthias Buelow writes:

> David Golden <david.golden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
>> This makes Caps Lock into an extra Control.

> On shared machines where you're not root (and hence cannot edit the
> X config), or on non-XFree/Xorg systems, you can use xmodmap (by,
> say, calling "xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmap" in .xsession) with the following
> in the config file:

> remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
> add Control = Control_L
> keysym Menu = Multi_key

> Btw., if someone knows a method of doing that quickly without
> exchanging system DLLs on Windows, I'd be interested of hearing
> about it.

I found this a while ago, at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock:

Make a file named (for example) CapsLockIsCtrl.reg with these three
lines:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Double click it from Windows explorer, reboot. That nasty CapsLock is
gone!

This has saved me lots of agony when having to work in Windows.

Bjorn.
.

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