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With 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 wi
by sxg 10y ago
With 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.