mhoyeMay 29

My fellow nerds: a question about your personal machines:

What is your favourite quality-of-life tweak you've made to your system?

An alias? A utility, a setting, something in .bashrc or ~/bin?

I'd like to know.

Show threadPippa BrooksMay 29
@mhoye Rebinding caps lock to control. For some reason it’s one of the biggest keys on the keyboard but aside from this hack I never use it
Show threadDaniel LakelandMay 29

@pwbrooks @mhoye

me too, always rebind caps lock. there were old keyboards where that's where ctrl was placed, Sun keyboards I think.

Show threadmhoyeMay 29
@dlakelan @pwbrooks Sun keyboards, IBMs and the earliest Apples had control in the right place and I never knew why they switched it. I was ride-or-die Sun Type 6 for a while and I still sometimes miss it.
Show threadDaniel Lakeland

@mhoye @pwbrooks

If you're an emacs user or use emacs style key bindings in another editor etc, it can be literally the difference between being physically injured and being pain free.

May 29 at 7:48pmWeb