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Seconding this. I'm now unable to use CAPS LOCK on my Mac as ESC, which makes using vim slightly more of a pain.

by dopu 10y ago

melling 10y ago
I upgraded to the Sierra beta yesterday and the i and h keys were reversed on my external mechanical keyboards. Seemed a bit strange.
- evanrelf 10y ago
  Happened to me too: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/64304 https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/64304
  - falconed 10y ago
    I downgraded to el cap solely because karabiner stopped working in sierra.
  - melling 10y ago
    My 'a' key didn't work either. I filed a radar yesterday.
- Someone 10y ago
  Upgraded to the Sierra beta? Why? The real thing has been out since September 20.
  - robotmlg 10y ago
    10.12.1 beta is already out
evanrelf 10y ago
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... > Set Caps Lock Key to Escape
- apetresc 10y ago
  I don't believe 'Escape' is one of the options. On macOS Sierra, as for every previous version for me, the only choices to remap through the prefPane are "Caps Lock", "Control", "Option", and "Command". Hence why Seil/KarabinerElements is the first thing I install on a new Mac.
  - robgough 10y ago
    Apparently the latest beta (10.12.1) has support for this natively. https://github.com/tekezo/Seil/issues/68#issuecomment-250195039 https://github.com/tekezo/Seil/issues/68#issuecomment-250195...
    - apetresc 10y ago
      Oh, well then! Looking forward to the first Sierra update, in that case :) I really did not expect Apple to finally fill this gap that has been around for so many years.
    - evanrelf 10y ago
      Yeah, sorry I didn't specify. I am running the latest macOS Sierra beta.
    - jaimebuelta 10y ago
      Interesting. It really has, but I didn't see it before. I was using Karabiner to set caps lock to control AND escape when pressed independently, something extremely useful to use Vim and command line. This doesn't appear to be supported, unfortunately.
  - quinndupont 10y ago
    And at least for me, the system preference switches simply don't work for my external keyboard (it can't seem to fully understand the difference between an internal keyboard and an external keyboard).
- vhost- 10y ago
  OS X nor macOS have the option to set caps lock to escape. This is why people who want to do this use Seil or Karabiner Elements.
codyb 10y ago
I map escape to jj which is pretty useful. Thanks to some article somewhere years ago fir that.

Seconding this. I'm now unable to use CAPS LOCK on my Mac as ESC, which makes using vim slightly more of a pain.

by dopu 10y ago

Seconding this. I'm now unable to use CAPS LOCK on my Mac as ESC, which makes using vim slightly more of a pain.

I upgraded to the Sierra beta yesterday and the i and h keys were reversed on my external mechanical keyboards. Seemed a bit strange.

evanrelf 10y ago
Happened to me too: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/64304 https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/64304
- falconed 10y ago
  I downgraded to el cap solely because karabiner stopped working in sierra.
- melling 10y ago
  My 'a' key didn't work either. I filed a radar yesterday.
Someone 10y ago
Upgraded to the Sierra beta? Why? The real thing has been out since September 20.
- robotmlg 10y ago
  10.12.1 beta is already out

evanrelf 10y ago

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... > Set Caps Lock Key to Escape

apetresc 10y ago
I don't believe 'Escape' is one of the options. On macOS Sierra, as for every previous version for me, the only choices to remap through the prefPane are "Caps Lock", "Control", "Option", and "Command". Hence why Seil/KarabinerElements is the first thing I install on a new Mac.
- robgough 10y ago
  Apparently the latest beta (10.12.1) has support for this natively. https://github.com/tekezo/Seil/issues/68#issuecomment-250195039 https://github.com/tekezo/Seil/issues/68#issuecomment-250195...
  - apetresc 10y ago
    Oh, well then! Looking forward to the first Sierra update, in that case :) I really did not expect Apple to finally fill this gap that has been around for so many years.
  - evanrelf 10y ago
    Yeah, sorry I didn't specify. I am running the latest macOS Sierra beta.
  - jaimebuelta 10y ago
    Interesting. It really has, but I didn't see it before. I was using Karabiner to set caps lock to control AND escape when pressed independently, something extremely useful to use Vim and command line. This doesn't appear to be supported, unfortunately.
- quinndupont 10y ago
  And at least for me, the system preference switches simply don't work for my external keyboard (it can't seem to fully understand the difference between an internal keyboard and an external keyboard).
vhost- 10y ago
OS X nor macOS have the option to set caps lock to escape. This is why people who want to do this use Seil or Karabiner Elements.

codyb 10y ago

I map escape to jj which is pretty useful. Thanks to some article somewhere years ago fir that.