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Notice how all these have an esc key. That should have been a hardware key! A message from the Vim gang.
by intothemild 7y ago
Notice how all these have an esc key.
That should have been a hardware key!
A message from the Vim gang.
- kristiandupont 7y agoAs a member of the Vim gang, I have to say that using caps-lock is better anyway and MacOS has a built-in setting for it now, so go and fix that right away. That said, I had a MBP with touch bar for half a year and even though I was quite excited when they announced it, I hated it. I will not buy another laptop with that thing on it.
- reustle 7y agoTIL it's now a native option. Thanks! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127591/using-caps-lock-as-esc-in-mac-os-x/40254864#40254864 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/127591/using-caps-lock-a...
- enneff 7y agoI've been using caps lock as my control key for too long to make this leap. :-(
- acupofnope 7y agoKarabiner Elements has this template where caps lock can behave as an esc key if you tap it, and a ctrl key if you hold it down.
- tazard 7y agoThanks! That sounds exactly like what I need, and I'm already using Karabiner.
- viddo 7y agoYou can also use it for both ctrl and esc with a little help by Hammerspoon (http://hammerspoon.org http://hammerspoon.org), e.g. I've been using this for the past year and it works great https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard#a-more-useful-caps-lock-key https://github.com/jasonrudolph/keyboard#a-more-useful-caps-...
- haskal 7y agoAs a member of the multilingual/multi-keyboard layout gang, Caps Lock is also the default button used to switch keyboard layouts.
- mdonahoe 7y agoinoremap jj <Esc>
- timvisee 7y agoRemap CapsLock instead.
- Elidrake24 7y agoI did, it's my ctrl like anyone else that doesn't hate their pinky.
- hnzix 7y agoThe next level is using Karabiner-Elements to map <caps> to <ctrl> when held and <esc> when tapped.
- andromeduck 7y agoThis is what I have :) also right command + esdf for arrow keys
- mateuszf 7y agoI usually do that but it stopped working for me on new macbook :/
- hnzix 7y agoCtrl-[ homie. But I hear you.
- samwillis 7y agoIf you have the UK keyboard on your Mac it has the wonderfully useless §± key top left next to the 1. Perfect for remapping to esc!