[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[Joshua Landau]

On 10 August 2013 08:43, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 10Aug2013 06:37, Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:
> | On 10 August 2013 03:31, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> | > One of the first things I do on a new machine, Linux or Mac, is to
> | > disable the capslock key.  It is a simple keyboard pref on the Mac
> | > and a kept-in-a-file xmodmap incantation on Linux (assuming X11
> | > desktop).
> |
> | Rather, map it to a new modifier. Mod3 is almost always free.
>
> I think the relevant bit for me is:
>
>   add control = Caps_Lock
>
> i.e. make CapsLock another Control key under X11.

Then you have three (3!!) control keys, two of which are spaced apart
by a single button. I find I'm quick to run out of shortcuts; an extra
modifier helps keep things flatter (no Ctrl-Alt-Mod-Shift-PgDn ;p).