When you just look back

I’ve been using a Bluetooth keyboard, provided by the Apple, for my iPad. Its been a while since I started typing with it, and I’ve been happy with this device, except one of its aspect : CapsLock.

I don’t quite remember when I started hating the CapsLock key. It must have been ever since I started using US layout keyboard (so sometime during my undergraduate time). Remapping (or assigning) the Ctrl key to CapsLock position, which is located next to “A”, is one of the first things I do, when I setup my own environment. For this Bluetooth keyboard, connected to an iOS device, however, I haven’t found a way to do so.

I first thought it could be modified on iOS layer. So far, I haven’t found a setting to do so (even in recently launched iOS5). Someone told me this could be achieved on application layer. The application I use the most with my keyboard is by far the Blogsy, which is an offline blog entry writing application, so I wrote a question to developer.

They replied me by next morning. But the answer was a bit disappointing (though it is nothing against the developers); they don’t know how the keys could be remapped either.

It seems to me that I’d have to live with this rather inconvenient situation. comparing to default software keyboard on iPad, shown on the screen, this Bluetooth keyboard is far easier and faster to type. Hope the Apple would soon decide to add “kill the CapsLock” feature on iOS.