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As an old Sun keyboard user, Caps Lock as Control feels right. That's also where it is on my HHKB keyboard. As a vim user, escape is too high up on most modern
by nsxwolf 7y ago
As an old Sun keyboard user, Caps Lock as Control feels right. That's also where it is on my HHKB keyboard.
As a vim user, escape is too high up on most modern keyboards anyway. The ADM-3A terminal vi was invented on placed it to the left of the Q key, which was a lot easier to reach. HHKB puts it where the tilde key traditionally is, which is pretty close to the original intent of vi.
Remapping tilde on touchbar MacBook Pros would be a good solution, if there was an obvious other place to put tilde/backtick.
- isomorphic 7y agoNot just terminals and UNIX workstation keyboards--Apple's very first keyboard on the Apple II. (I don't think Apple shipped a keyboard with the Apple I.) Of course it helped that there was no lower case, obviating the need for Caps Lock, and who needs Tab, but there were Shift keys.
- js2 7y ago> As an old Sun keyboard user I've been used to the control key in that position since about 1980: http://www.hp9845.net/9845/history/comparison/images/closeups/apple2-top-view.jpg http://www.hp9845.net/9845/history/comparison/images/closeup...
- salgernon 7y agoDuring the 80s there was such a plethora of keyboard variants, I learned never to trust where ESC would be; you can use control-[ on most keyboards to generate the same key. When the MacBookPro went useless for ESC, my muscle memory just switched over. (This is somewhat conditional on control being next to 'A', which is the only place it should ever be!)