opposite-shift : comments [Matthew's Journal]

Many of mine require Ctrl or Alt, certainly. Drift the mouse pointer around the screen machine-gunning terminal windows with ^D; alternate precisely aimed clicks in my editor window with Emacsish keybindings that do a given thing at each place I've put the cursor.

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I was only really planning on fettling shift, I think.

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Hmm. In that case, the other nasty case would be TYPING IN ALL CAPS, in which it would be a royal pain to keep changing shift key between letters!

(I suppose you could use caps lock, but generally I disable the caps lock key completely on any machine I use enough to make it worthwhile, because I hit it by accident far more often than I want to use it on purpose.)

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I REALLY HATE typing all in caps without using caps lock, as it ties my hands in knots. YMMV :)

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I've never had a problem with it, but then I'm one of these non-official-touch-typists whose typing style evolved to match the requirements made on it. I can type fine with one or several fingers out of action due to injury or holding food or whatever (except for one or two that I really depend on), so keeping my left little finger on Shift doesn't present a problem for me at all. Certainly rather that than have a caps lock key, though I suppose it might be different if my usage patterns required me to type in all-caps lots of the time.

Of course, I now recall that in my BBC-using days I typically left Caps Lock on all the time in its overridable mode, and held down shift when I wanted to type in lower case :-)

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ITYM 'fettering'.

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Shortcuts for slightly less common things often use shift in conjunction with other modifier keys.

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Paint Shop Pro (on Windows) use shift-foo keyboard shortcuts. IIRC shift-S for reSize (or it could be shift-R, I don't have it on my work box).

Note to self: must remember the f in shift.

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