The "loop and a half"

[bartc]

On 08/10/2017 19:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 3:50 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:

> You assume that since
> *you* have never needed to produce one lower-case letter in a block of
> upper-case, that "probably no one else has", and then you make it
> impossible to do that in your editor.

Only when caps-lock is stuck on (then the feature may have be of some 
use at last). However my editor also makes it very easy to reverse or 
change case of existing text.

The advantage of Shift working one-way is that it is guaranteed to give 
you a capital letter without you needing to check the caps-lock status 
or checking the screen to see that it was typed as capitals.

That is 100 times more useful than the rare time you have to add a lower 
case letter in a sea of capitals and can't be bothered to turn off caps 
lock.

  I have wanted to produce a
> lower-case letter by holding Shift.
I've read that other people have had exactly the same trouble. I don't 
believe that my pattern of typing English text is that different from 
most other people's, and I've ALWAYS found that 'feature' annoying, so 
from that I might infer that plenty of others do too.

In fact, if I start off MS Word, with caps lock unknowingly on, and type 
Shifted-T, unshifted-H, unshifted-E, that will temporarily display 'tHE' 
before it gets auto-corrected to the intended 'The'.

I wonder why it does that? According to you, people WANT to type tHE.

BTW, all the typewriters I've used do exactly what I want. If caps lock 
is on (shift-lock there), then pressing Shift doesn't reverse it. So, 
what happened to existing practice there, typewriters hadn't been around 
long enough?

 > I have also used this behaviour to
 > detect and recognize faults of various sorts. Do you understand the
 > concept of debugging a system by getting more information, not less?

I've no idea what you're talking about there.

 > Yep. Good reasons like that you're a moron.

 > Yeah, well, some people like to be standards-compliant, others like to
 > be irrelevant morons.

I started to be angry when I saw these insults now I'm just rather 
depressed.

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bartc