Swapping Ctrl/CapsLock (PCs or Macs!)

Someone else cares about this, and he cares enough to catalogue how to do it on all sorts of machines!
Just go here.

(hmm. Actually, that was a total lie; the link above only treats windows and linux machines. Well, this guys says how to do it on 10.4 machines.)

some windows stuff worth knowing.

• This page tells you how to get free copies of the command line development tools that are including in Visual Studio. That's right, get yourself the C/C++ compiler and header files (as well as some batch scripts to set up your environment properly), all direct from Microsoft.




• .NET Framework SDK (for the compiler and linker).


• Platform SDK (for the header files).


• As a side note to this, I had to learn about the call statement for DOS Batch scripts in order to learn how to make a batch file that would call each of the batch files in sequence, because each of the above SDK has a different batch file to set up the environment.




• This page tells you how to edit the Windows Registry to change the behavior of the Caps Lock key. For a Emacs user like me, this was a crucial thing to learn, since the control key is really hard to get at on modern Windows laptops. Speaking of which . . .


• This page tells you how to install Emacs on a Windows machine. It works well enough.


• Cygwin. Nuff said.