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1. Karsten Gerloff 💙💛 (kgerloff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-May-2022 15:47:29 CEST Karsten Gerloff 💙💛

   I’ve boggled several minds today by mentioning that on my laptops, I have remapped the CapsLock key to act as an additional Ctrl key.

   Somehow I had grown to assume that that’s how everyone does it, but there you go.

   • Gijs Hillenius (gijs@post.hillenius.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-May-2022 15:49:32 CEST Gijs Hillenius

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     also have an extra M- key? I mean , surely this is because of #emacs?
   • Karsten Gerloff 💙💛 (kgerloff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-May-2022 15:50:53 CEST Karsten Gerloff 💙💛

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     • Gijs Hillenius

     @gijs Nope, these days it’s mostly Microsoft Office 365 🤮

   • Karsten Gerloff 💙💛 (kgerloff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-May-2022 18:03:52 CEST Karsten Gerloff 💙💛

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     • Gijs Hillenius

     @gijs I mean, of course I started doing this when I was using emacs.

     But the additional CTRL key also proved itself more ergonomic and efficient when using Office on Windows.

     And it makes sense. If you have a key that provides access to three quarters of commonly used shortcuts, why put it somewhere hard to reach?