Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Re: What did I do?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 16:54, Eric Weir <eeweir@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> This morning, working in a large text document, I realized that all of a
> sudden all the upper case characters had been converted to lowercase. It
> seems I accidentally issued a command that has that effect. I believe at the
> time I had caps-lock on, had forgotten that, and issued a commonly-used
> command, probably a motion command, with it in effect. Fortunately I had
> saved recently and was able to recover most of the file from backup.
>
> What did I do?
>

If you use CapsLock often, you might want to read this:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Insert-mode_only_Caps_Lock

I have CapsLock and Esc swapped, but I do use CapsLock when typing SQL
into code that someone else may maintain. I have a bit KDE widget that
lights up whenever CapsLock is on, for the simple reason that I never
look at my keyboard.

--
Dotan Cohen

http://gibberish.co.il
http://what-is-what.com

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