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Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an esc

Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an escape key and that's if anything an improvement over where escape was before.

vbezhenar 10y ago
I use caps lock as control.
- the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
  Then you can now use control as escape if you so desire.
lghh 10y ago
I agree that caps lock is an improvement over escape's location. But, if you're like me, you also find it to be an improvement over control's location so you have caps lock mapped to that already so rebinding esc to caps lock is not an option.
- peller 10y ago
  You can have the best of both worlds on *nix: tap == ESC, hold == CTRL http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-make-that-caps-lock-key-useful/ http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...
  - lghh 10y ago
    That's not a bad option and I had not considered it. I will try it out, thanks!
  - fabiant7t 10y ago
    Interesting, but on macOS 10.12.x it must be Karabiner-Elements and at least the UI does not make me replicate this behavior.
    - fabiant7t 10y ago
      Editing the JSON config will do the trick as described here: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/8 https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/8 There is also a solution for Hammerspoon users here: https://gist.github.com/arbelt/b91e1f38a0880afb316dd5b5732759f1 https://gist.github.com/arbelt/b91e1f38a0880afb316dd5b573275...
      - sirn 10y ago
        Or Keyboard Maestro: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256055 http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256055 https://files.grid.in.th/11RiNt.png https://files.grid.in.th/11RiNt.png
thesnufkin 10y ago
but where will i put the ctrl key then :( in all seriousness, switching the ctrl - caps lock keys was probably the best layout improving decisions i've ever made. highly recommending it for ergonomic and health reasons.
waffl 10y ago
For ages I've had ~ remapped to escape (if no modifiers pressed so tilde still works as expected, and caps to ctrl) so the missing ESC isn't a big deal, although I did have it remapped for ` Anyone looking for extremely fine grain keymap control (with a UI that far surpasses any kind of keyboard remapping I've tried doing in Linux) should look up karabiner. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner
- prh8 10y ago
  Make sure you don't upgrade to Sierra yet! The next version of Karabiner (karabiner-elements) that works on Sierra is still under development.

vbezhenar 10y ago

I use caps lock as control.

the_mitsuhiko 10y ago
Then you can now use control as escape if you so desire.

lghh 10y ago

I agree that caps lock is an improvement over escape's location. But, if you're like me, you also find it to be an improvement over control's location so you have caps lock mapped to that already so rebinding esc to caps lock is not an option.

peller 10y ago
You can have the best of both worlds on *nix: tap == ESC, hold == CTRL http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-make-that-caps-lock-key-useful/ http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...
- lghh 10y ago
  That's not a bad option and I had not considered it. I will try it out, thanks!
- fabiant7t 10y ago
  Interesting, but on macOS 10.12.x it must be Karabiner-Elements and at least the UI does not make me replicate this behavior.
  - fabiant7t 10y ago
    Editing the JSON config will do the trick as described here: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/8 https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/8 There is also a solution for Hammerspoon users here: https://gist.github.com/arbelt/b91e1f38a0880afb316dd5b5732759f1 https://gist.github.com/arbelt/b91e1f38a0880afb316dd5b573275...
    - sirn 10y ago
      Or Keyboard Maestro: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256055 http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256055 https://files.grid.in.th/11RiNt.png https://files.grid.in.th/11RiNt.png

thesnufkin 10y ago

but where will i put the ctrl key then :( in all seriousness, switching the ctrl - caps lock keys was probably the best layout improving decisions i've ever made. highly recommending it for ergonomic and health reasons.

waffl 10y ago

For ages I've had ~ remapped to escape (if no modifiers pressed so tilde still works as expected, and caps to ctrl) so the missing ESC isn't a big deal, although I did have it remapped for ` Anyone looking for extremely fine grain keymap control (with a UI that far surpasses any kind of keyboard remapping I've tried doing in Linux) should look up karabiner. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner

prh8 10y ago
Make sure you don't upgrade to Sierra yet! The next version of Karabiner (karabiner-elements) that works on Sierra is still under development.