[Novalug] "Exorcising Caps Lock"

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

less already knows how to read gz files. It inserts gunzip as a filter.

and I believe there is also a zless command.

JIM

Mike Shade wrote:
> zcat filename.gz |less
>
> would probably work :)
>
>
> Nino Pereira wrote:
>> Don,
>>
>> how do you read that boottime.kmap.gz file? Do you have
>> to unpack it first?
>>
>> Nino
>>
>>
>> donjr wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:01 -0400, Doug Toppin wrote:
>>>> I haven't messed with the kbd config in quite a while but I frequently
>>>> seem to hit caps lock when I'm not paying attention and it completely
>>>> messes me up when in vim.  The following has some useful little tips
>>>> on that subject:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3687781
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that I've ever kept caps lock on so turning it off with:
>>>> modmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
>>>>
>>>> is about to become my default I think.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>
>>> Oh I guess you mean:
>>>   xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
>>>   /\ note the 'x'
>>>
>>> Also note the 'xmodmap' program only works when you're using an
>>> X-display.
>>>  {-: IOW it DON'T work from plan old console type text terminals. :-}
>>>
>>> As the author of the above article pointed out if you are using 
>>> Gnome or
>>> KDE do check out there "User Preference Keyboard" configuration 
>>> utils as
>>> it may have a simple way to do what you want with NO hand editing of
>>> those nasty .*rc files, that a simple keystroke mistake can even 
>>> prevent
>>> you from logging in.
>>>
>>> BTW
>>>   Do you want to also handle it in at the console text terminals level?
>>> Then check out the program 'loadkeys'.
>>> The command in order to have the same effect is:
>>>   echo 'keycode 58 = ' | loadkeys On Debian based systems see the 
>>> file /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
>>>  WARNING: if you decide to touch be VERY VERY careful. WARNING
>>>
>>> --  
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