New Apple keyboard has protection against accidental caps lock

I've been using the wireless version for almost two weeks now and the delay on my control key is still driving me crazy. The worst is when I want to hit Ctrl-r to redo a change in vim and instead end up clobbering my undo history. Or maybe the worst thing is when I hit Apple-Ctrl-h, and instead of doing what I want, the control press doesn't register and my window gets hidden. Annoying!

@Ian: No, the update that enables the top row function keys does not affect this bogus feature.

I agree with comment #19. This "feature" is actually quite a penalty for unix geek types who want to use capslock as the control key. It's great that it makes a lot of people happy who aren't in that camp, but it should be configurable. OSX has done a fantastic job of catering to terminal-loving *nix geeks, but this feature runs directly counter to that effort. Despite it's great design, I can't recommend this keyboard to heavy terminal users. Give us back our control key!

Personally I find this really annoying since I've always just used the caps lock key instead of the shift key for capitalizing things even single letters, and have never really had any problem with accidentally pressing the caps lock key. So now I have to force myself to use the shift key instead, lest the caps on my sentences end up lOOKING LIKE THIS.

I agree with @pn. This keyboard is useless for caps-as-control freaks (e.g. Emacs users) like myself.

I called AppleCare to see if there was a setting to disable it. They told me the keyboard was defective, and I should return it. I find this highly unlikely.

@crackheaduare, you’re wrong - I have the wireless model, and it is most definitely how it works.

Has anyone noticed if this is the case BEFORE installing the keyboard software update? Maybe we can just remove that and hold out until Apple fixes the problem.

This "feature" makes it so that I can't use that keyboard.

I wrote more about that here: http://brok3n.org/archivesextreme/2007/10/capslock_is_my.html

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=4VjBghKH--k

Video of the protection on wireless keyboard...

@ crackheaduare:

Are you sure?
My wireless keyboard has the protection...

This is only on the wired keyboards, the wireless ones (which I just received today) act normal with the cap lock key....

I'm pissed. I map my caps-lock to Control and (a) I'm an avid emacs user and (b) a fast typist and (c) two control key taps is my Quicksilver activation key. I just bought one of these keyboards because I really like the low profile and short key travel (speed!) but this delay keeps messing me up. Why not do this in software and let me turn it off. Grrrrrrr.

I don't find this to be the case with my keyboard.