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UNIX people
Authored by: SeanAhern on Feb 22, '02 09:45:53PM

Short answer: UNIX people like it.

It's more than emacs. When you're using UNIX all the time, you find yourself using things like ^C (kill job), ^U (erase line), ^W (erase word), ^Z (suspend job), and others to do your normal work.

Since I almost never hit Caps Lock, and hit Control all the time, I'd like the Control key to be in an easy-to-access location. Yeah, the lower-left corner isn't bad, but right under my left pinky would be great.

To compound the issue, most people who use UNIX are used to the X11 system, in which you can remap any key to any other key. On every other UNIX computer I've used, I have remapped the Control key to right under my pinky. The Mac is the only computer where I haven't been able to do this.

(I have not tried this hack yet - more precisely, I haven't rebooted yet to see if the changes have taken effect - so I can't comment on its success.)



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