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Something similar is how remapping the Capslock key in Windows to another one has to be done via registry edit instead of a Control Panel setting. Given the ren
by tareqak 8y ago
Something similar is how remapping the Capslock key in Windows to another one has to be done via registry edit instead of a Control Panel setting. Given the renewed drive from Microsoft to become the developer’s OS of choice over the last five to ten years, choosing to not offer a more a accessible solution than a registry edit seems contrary to that drive for me.
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y agoHonestly, it's probably something that just got overlooked. I've only ever hated my caps lock key enough on a keyboard to rebind it once.
- lbotos 8y agoSeems like you aren't using Vim Then. Caps to escape is a common binding. It's not about hate, it's about ease of modal editing.
- bscphil 8y agoAfter using a Chromebook for a while I discovered how much I love having my Caps Lock key remapped to launching the desktop search tool, and now I do it on all my computers. E.g. Milou for KDE, I think the MacOS one is called Spotlight.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoI use caps-to-ctrl. Ctrl is so common that not being able to hit caps lock for it is now a major usability issue for me on other people's computers.
- cheschire 8y agoOlder Sun keyboards used to have control in that location labelled by default. I remember buying a happy hacker keyboard back in the early 2000's that also had that as the default configuration, with a dip switch to flip it.
- TomK32 8y agoI've mapped it to switching the keyboard locale on my linux desktop.
- bootlooped 8y agoRemapping caps lock to "app" has helped me a lot. It allows me to bring up the right click context menu without touching the mouse.
- anticensor 8y agoWindows Input API is multi-leveled and toplevel one sends key combos and characters only. Because keyboard drivers are system-level (although configurable per-user), you can only remap via system reconfiguration, which makes sense.