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It's very easy to remap caps lock to escape.
by ses1984 7y ago
It's very easy to remap caps lock to escape.
- computerex 7y agoThat's not the point. You shouldn't have to map caps lock to escape.
- ses1984 7y agoWhy not, it's better anyway?
- computerex 7y agoYou are entitled to your opinion. Don't thrust it onto others.
- rdgddgdrgdr 7y agoFucking IRONY right here
- thaumasiotes 7y agoBecause caps lock is already remapped to ctrl. :p
- baddox 7y agoThere will always be other potential physical keys that aren't on your laptop keyboard. You could just as easily say that you shouldn't have to use modifier keys to trigger Page Down on a Macbook Pro keyboard. Where's my Print Screen SysRq key?
- ses1984 7y agoOk so why isn't the 2012 mbp hated because it doesn't have that key?
- computerex 7y ago2012 MBP has the escape key.
- ses1984 7y agoIt doesn't have print screen / sysreq, why is that OK?
- computerex 7y agoBecause those keys are not used nearly as often as escape. And because osx has a different keyboard shortcut for screenshots so the print screen key is largely irrelevant.
- ses1984 7y agoThe reasons you listed are largely why I don't care that the escape key is gone from where it was.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoIf only it were so easy to remap my hand! Caps lock is already dedicated to control and most apps don’t support ^[.
- ses1984 7y agoOk then it you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape. There are many valid criticisms of the touch bar macs, losing one key in particular is pretty low on the list.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> i[f] you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape The whole reason to remap caps lock to ctrl is that ctrl is in a terrible location.
- ses1984 7y agoEscape is in a relatively terrible location as well, the default ctrl location is just as bad, hence remapping escape there isn't really worse than escape in the top left.
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- jnevelson 7y agoCheck out Karabiner Elements (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/). You can create a rule to change caps lock to control if pressed with other keys, else escape if pressed alone. I have no affiliation with it, just ran into this issue myself and it solved it for me.
- Lio 7y agoThat kind of highlights an issue for me though. If Apple were really on the ball with macOS they would have a better remap utility built in. Instead we have Karabiner Elements which has been of mixed stability in my experience. Many times I've had it completely disable the internal keyboard on my late 2013 MBP to the point where I have to plug in a USB keyboard to recover or if on the road do a force power reset.
- noncoml 7y ago“You are holding it wrong”?
- Lio 7y agoNot so much when you already remap the Caps lock key to Ctrl though.