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Rebound my caps lock to escape and never looked back!

mrzool 8y ago
You should (look back). Mapping it to Ctrl is a much more sensible choice. Can’t imagine using backspace instead of Ctrl-h, or Ctrl-A/E to go to the beginning/end of line, or Ctrl-W to delete back one word etc. Of course, Ctrl-[ is also right under your finger tips with Caps Lock mapped to Ctrl.
- meestaahjoshee 8y ago
  you can do tap for esc, hold for ctrl
  - hultner 8y ago
    This is what I've done for years now, best thing since sliced bread.
  - dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
    Tap what?
    - stevelosh 8y ago
      They mean remapping capslock to: * Ctrl if held and used with other keys. * Esc if pressed and released on its own. There's no reason to press and release Ctrl on its own (minus games), and you never need to chord Esc with anything else, so they can both live on the same key.
      - dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
        Thank you for explaining. Didn't know you could do that. Will look it up.
- dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  > You should (look back). Tell me about it! > Mapping it to Ctrl is a much more sensible choice. Never considered this, but just moved my pinkie to Ctrl and then to Esc and then to Ctrl... hmm... I use Emacs bindings in Insert Mode, wouldn't this interfere with them?
  - mrzool 8y ago
    On the contrary, mapping caps lock to ctrl makes emacs keybindings super accessible! That’s exactly my point. I even disabled the backspace to force myself to use Ctrl-H instead. It’s all in the home row! Added bonus: on MacOS, emacs keybindings work in pretty much every place where you can input text, so you get’em everywhere. It’s part of the Cocoa Text System: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html
- jolmg 8y ago
  > Ctrl-W to delete back one word That's one of the most commonly used shortcuts I use. Not just in vim, but also in the shell. When I screw up on my typing, the mistake is often 3 or more letters back. Instead of hitting backspace a lot or moving the cursor and retyping mid-word, I prefer to say "screw it", hit Ctrl-w, and retype the word. It's faster. My brain is just not optimized to type pieces of words. I can't use muscle memory then. Besides that, I don't know about you or dmitryminkovsky, but I remapped it to Caps system-wide, so by remapping to Ctrl, I'd be losing a lot more than those shortcuts you mentioned. On the other hand, CapsLock has always been a useless key to me. When I want to type in all-caps, it's less confusing/error-prone to just hold Shift with my pinky while typing. Also, Caps is in a much easier place to hit than Ctrl, so it's more fitting for a key that I hit a lot.
  - jwandborg 8y ago
    Speaking of Emacs key bindings: Alt+D, for when you've made a typo in the future.
    - jolmg 8y ago
      The equivalent of Ctrl-w in emacs is Ctrl-Backspace. It's more common to want to delete the word you just typed instead of the word to the right of the cursor.

You should (look back). Mapping it to Ctrl is a much more sensible choice. Can’t imagine using backspace instead of Ctrl-h, or Ctrl-A/E to go to the beginning/end of line, or Ctrl-W to delete back one word etc. Of course, Ctrl-[ is also right under your finger tips with Caps Lock mapped to Ctrl.

meestaahjoshee 8y ago
you can do tap for esc, hold for ctrl
- hultner 8y ago
  This is what I've done for years now, best thing since sliced bread.
- dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
  Tap what?
  - stevelosh 8y ago
    They mean remapping capslock to: * Ctrl if held and used with other keys. * Esc if pressed and released on its own. There's no reason to press and release Ctrl on its own (minus games), and you never need to chord Esc with anything else, so they can both live on the same key.
    - dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
      Thank you for explaining. Didn't know you could do that. Will look it up.
dmitryminkovsky 8y ago
> You should (look back). Tell me about it! > Mapping it to Ctrl is a much more sensible choice. Never considered this, but just moved my pinkie to Ctrl and then to Esc and then to Ctrl... hmm... I use Emacs bindings in Insert Mode, wouldn't this interfere with them?
- mrzool 8y ago
  On the contrary, mapping caps lock to ctrl makes emacs keybindings super accessible! That’s exactly my point. I even disabled the backspace to force myself to use Ctrl-H instead. It’s all in the home row! Added bonus: on MacOS, emacs keybindings work in pretty much every place where you can input text, so you get’em everywhere. It’s part of the Cocoa Text System: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html
jolmg 8y ago
> Ctrl-W to delete back one word That's one of the most commonly used shortcuts I use. Not just in vim, but also in the shell. When I screw up on my typing, the mistake is often 3 or more letters back. Instead of hitting backspace a lot or moving the cursor and retyping mid-word, I prefer to say "screw it", hit Ctrl-w, and retype the word. It's faster. My brain is just not optimized to type pieces of words. I can't use muscle memory then. Besides that, I don't know about you or dmitryminkovsky, but I remapped it to Caps system-wide, so by remapping to Ctrl, I'd be losing a lot more than those shortcuts you mentioned. On the other hand, CapsLock has always been a useless key to me. When I want to type in all-caps, it's less confusing/error-prone to just hold Shift with my pinky while typing. Also, Caps is in a much easier place to hit than Ctrl, so it's more fitting for a key that I hit a lot.
- jwandborg 8y ago
  Speaking of Emacs key bindings: Alt+D, for when you've made a typo in the future.
  - jolmg 8y ago
    The equivalent of Ctrl-w in emacs is Ctrl-Backspace. It's more common to want to delete the word you just typed instead of the word to the right of the cursor.