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by ben0x539 4298 days ago
You'd really only need to hold it for the first character of any command, I guess. Though holding shift+capslock+; to write a capslock-: feels weird.
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That's not a mode trigger?
But isn't it interesting that people would find that easy to use, despite being modal? This suggests that the conclusion from the article - to avoid modes - misses the point.
Which was precisely my point :)
imo not any more than hitting ctrl-f in notepad to bring up the search dialog is a mode trigger. Meaning I guess technically it is one but I don't parse it as such.