Talk:Shift key/Archive 1

Archive 1

Strange suggestion

Why would you do the last suggestion, use your right hand for the left shift key and left hand for 'A'. This effectively is crossing your hands! Zoney 09:07, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Darn, got it round the wrong way. Will fix. Dysprosia 09:09, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Two hands or one hand

When shifting, it is proper, according to what I learned a long time ago, to hold down the shift key with one hand while typing a character with the other. However, this article says that some people are taught to use the left shift regardless of what side. Which makes more sense?? 66.32.242.104 02:43, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

I've successfully learned to use left shift only on purpose, in response to a repetetive stress injury. My right hand has been overworked for years with the mouse, enter, backspace, arrows, numberpad, ... and around half the shifts. Having switched mouse and shift usage to 90%+ lefthand, I would recommend teaching this as the standard method! I expect that using two hands for shift commands will be reliably faster, if that is what one seeks. 198.176.219.123 09:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Both Shift Keys

I think the bit about both shift keys is not standard. On my keyboard for example, I couldn't type the key Z. My friend couldn't get B but could get others. I am going to modify the text to reflect this anomaly. Epachamo 21:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

HOW TO DO IT

DELETE THE ARTICLE ON CAPS LOCK, BECAUSE ONLY REAL MEN HOLD THE SHIFTKEY DOWN. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.19.45.4 (talk • contribs) 07:28, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Shift + Caps Lock

On which computers / operating systems is it true that holding down shift when caps lock is down reverts to lower case? Contrary to the article, I don't think it's all. 91.105.59.164 22:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

F13 and F14

It said holding down shift+F1 makes you press F13 and shift+F2 makes you type F14. I want to know what it does. Did anyone press it? If so tell me what happens. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.255.21 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Shift Lock key on Commodore computers

I'm not too sure about the PET but the shift lock key is not scanned on the C-64 and C-128.

The main article could be improved by noting how the apparent need to hold the shift key down while simultaneously holding another key down, is actually an artifact from the olden days when millions of keyboards were built without scannable shift lock keys. There are still a lot of people who find it maddening to brush against a caps lock, more or less inadvertently, and find themselves in a randomly shifted state. This is generally the result of excessive overscanning, where the state of the Shifts Lock key cannot be determined in any practical manner except by watching for it to light up, or be displayed on the monitor. 216.99.198.43 (talk) 20:23, 15 August 2009 (UTC)