In reply to a post by AEP:

So if you never use the Caps Lock key then disable it. Simple.

Mais naturellement! I'm working-up the first post for my blog, hence the research.

I thought of gluing a drawing pin to the Caps Lock key. This would certainly discourage me from hitting it accidentally. I might mock-up a picture and put it in my blog.

System Preferences
Keyboard
Modifier Keys
Caps Lock Key - Select "No Action"

Double tapping it to turn it on seems to me to the most logical way to handle accidental presses, would be extremely hard to turn it on by accident then.

You can use something like AutoHotkey to bind events to key presses, a lot of people use it to to remap CapsLock completely.

Just had a quick look and it's dead easy to create a script to enable on double click and disable on single click -

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1 23 45 67 89 1011 1213 1415 16	CapsLock:: state := GetKeyState("Capslock", "T")  ; True if CapsLock is ON, false otherwise.if state {  SetCapsLockState, off   return} else{   If (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey<400) and (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey<>-1)  {     SetCapsLockState, on            SoundBeep, 750, 500     Return  } }

Obviously, the problem with that is that you'd have to have it running all the time and it's a third party app. Though that's not really that much of an issue as you can compile scripts and then add it to start up, then forget about it.

Learn to type?

In reply to a post by captainmouse:

Learn to type?

I could touch-type pretty well (albeit slowly) on my old Olympia typewriter. Computer keyboards put paid to that. They're just not the same.

The classic IBM keyboards were good, but modern ones are all rubbish.

On a humorous but also serious note, you should maybe get one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard

Now, if they did those with the ability to also design your own keyboard, so you could move the caps lock key out the way to somewhere safe, where it doesn't annoy you as much, that would be pretty cool.

Of course, this lacks tactile response which may be annoying.

Also, we already have the potential to 'design our own keyboards' with tablet interfaces, but making a tablet available purely for displaying a virtual keyboard is just plain silly.

Maybe if they get to the point where tablet technology can be quickly deployed into desktop surfaces (like in TRON, the movie), then your prayers will be answered as you have the ability to make the keyboard any size, dimension and position you wish, with the option of physically moving keys to different locations also. Could be quite fun.

In reply to a post by AEP:

The classic IBM keyboards were good, but modern ones are all rubbish.

Indeed. I have an original, pristine one, still boxed. A gift from a colleague who was an IBM keyboard engineer. I love the tactile feel and, of course, the CLICK