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Well, this is sacrilege, added to the 'ESC' key blasphemy. MBPs could be banned in Ireland, they consider blasphemy the first class crime.
by ommunist 10y ago
Well, this is sacrilege, added to the 'ESC' key blasphemy. MBPs could be banned in Ireland, they consider blasphemy the first class crime.
- sxg 10y agoWith macOS Sierra you can natively remap Esc to Caps Lock (or CMD, Alt, Ctrl). I think a lot of people already did this before. I just tried it out yesterday with Vim, and I find it way more convenient than Esc.
- subway 10y agoCouldn't you already do this? I've been off OSX for 5 or 6 years now, but I remember having no issues remapping the Caps Lock key as CTRL/CMD/ALT, and would have sworn ESC was an option.
- a1k0n 10y agoEscape isn't an option. Or at least it wasn't before... There's a third party tool called Karabiner which enables this.
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- scarlac 10y agoI can confirm it's a native option in Sierra. I have not installed Karabiner. Actually, from their website: "Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment."
- a1k0n 10y agoSure enough, this is new with Sierra. El Capitan doesn't support it. Finally! I was tired of Seil/Karabiner/whatever else constantly updating itself and changing its name, just so I could remap caps lock to escape.
- sxg 10y agoIt wasn't a native option before. You had to use a third party program (not 100% sure since I never tried before). Now it's built in to the keyboard settings for macOS.
- schoen 10y agoI use a ThinkPad but I was curious about this solution that people were discussing yesterday: do they also have something mapped as Compose? On my machine I have Caps Lock mapped as Compose so that I can type foreign characters quickly, especially when writing Portuguese. If my Esc key disappeared, I'd still want a Compose key; is there a convenient option for that on the new MBP keyboard? Is there something other than Compose that macOS users like for non-ASCII text entry? Edit: for example, I just saw the Icelandic Pirate Party's banner "A rettri leið" in a New York Times video about their electoral success, and I wanted to use Google Translate to find out what it meant. Of course, it wasn't copyable text, so I just typed "a rettri lei[Compose]dh" and I had my translation in moments. :-)
- nicky0 10y agoMac has the Option key for that. It lies between Control and Command.
- schoen 10y agoThat does seem to be the closest equivalent, and I guess people who like Compose could usefully map it there!
- nicky0 10y agoNot sure what you mean, I don't think a "Compose" key is a concept in macOS.
- schoen 10y agoI guess I was implicitly thinking about people running Linux on MacBook Pro hardware and/or wondering how people would enter a range of non-ASCII characters in macOS, which I should have made more explicit. Thanks for your answers.
- extra88 10y agoI never heard of a Compose key before. "Because Microsoft Windows and OS X do not support a compose key by default, the key does not exist on most keyboards designed for modern PC hardware." [0] How did you know to type [Compose]dh to get the desired character? Guess what? Google Translate gives the same translation for "A rettri leid" even though 'ð' is apparently not a 'd' with a diacritic but its own letter, "eth." [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth
- ommunist 10y agoI will not pay a dime for a computer with no ESC key. Because it is scary to use a computer you cannot escape from.