Re: capslock changes control characters?

[David Reitter]

On 3 Mar 2008, at 10:08, Chris Moore wrote:

> C-q C-i
>
> I got an error:
>
> Turns out I had capslock on.  This is reproducible in "emacs -Q" in
> the default *scratch* buffer.


Would is also be nice if Emacs converted keys bound to normal commands  
back to their lower-case variant when Caps Lock is active?

For instance, I've got C-x B bound to another function (switch-to- 
buffer-here). When Caps Lock is on, Emacs reads C-x B even though I  
did not use the shift key. While this is logical from a programmer's  
perspective, as a user I often have Caps Lock on by mistake, causing  
regular mixups.

(You may criticize the useless Caps Lock key, you may comment on the  
poor choice of the C-x B key-binding (it's only an example), but one  
has little control over these things one for various reasons.)