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Everything about Caps Lock
Computer key that forces typing in all-capitals
Caps Lock is a button on a computer keyboard that causes all letters of bicameral scripts to be generated in capital letters. It is a toggle key: each press reverses the previous action. Some keyboards also implement a light to give visual feedback about whether it is on or off. Exactly what Caps Lock does depends on the keyboard hardware, the operating system, the device driver, and the keyboard layout. Usually, the effect is limited to letter keys. Letters of non-bicameral scripts and non-letter characters are generated normally. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Caps LockA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Locked in transition? Towards a conceptualization of path-dependence lock-ins in the renewable energy landscapeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Return of Sherlock HolmesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Escaping carbon lock-inCited 779 times
- Go sideways: Control keyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Scroll LockA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative letter-case form of Caps Lock.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Escaping carbon lock-in
A Molecular Keypad Lock: A Photochemical Device Capable of Authorizing Password Entries
Bifunctional DNA Architectonics: Three‐Way Junctions with Sticky Perylene Bisimide Caps and a Central Metal Lock
DO CAPS ON INCREASES IN ASSESSED VALUES CREATE A LOCK-IN EFFECT? EVIDENCE FROM FLORIDA'S AMENDMENT ONE
Orthography in social media: Pragmatic and prosodic interpretations of caps lock
Do Caps on Increases in Assessed Values Create a Lock-In Effect? Evidence From Florida's Amendment One
Who supports portable assessment caps: The role of lock-in, mobility and tax share
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🆕 Influential since 2022
Locked in transition? Towards a conceptualization of path-dependence lock-ins in the renewable energy landscape
EXPERIMENTAR O EXPERIMENTAL: o corpo virtual como corpo vivo em caps lock
Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold of Graphic Design and How to Escape from It, by Ruben PaterValiz: Amsterdam, 2021, 552 pp., ISBN 9789492095817, €22,50
📚 Books worth reading
The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle · 1903
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]Arthur Conan Doyle · 1900
Works (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of The Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories] / Return of Sherlock Holmes)Arthur Conan Doyle · 1970
Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] / Return of Sherlock Holmes)Arthur Conan Doyle · 1928
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [2/2] (Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Hound of the Baskervilles / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Valley of Fear)Arthur Conan Doyle · 1930
Works (Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans / Adventure of Wisteria Lodge / Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)Arthur Conan Doyle · 1984
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes [2/2]Arthur Conan Doyle, William S. Baring-Gould · 1967
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries [22 stories]Arthur Conan Doyle · 1985
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