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For those of you mentioning the esc key, I suggest mapping capslock to esc, I've been doing that for years now (both Linux and Mac) and it's awesome. Except whe
by spurgu 7y ago
For those of you mentioning the esc key, I suggest mapping capslock to esc, I've been doing that for years now (both Linux and Mac) and it's awesome. Except when you're using someone else's computer and constantly turn capslock on and off...
Edit: You can do this natively since Mojave(?) in the keyboard settings without having to resort to something like Karabiner.
- wiredfool 7y agoUnless that’s where you’ve already remapped ctrl.
- cmaggard 7y agoWhy not both? My QMK mechanical keyboards (and, I just noticed, Karabiner Elements) can support turning Caps Lock into Ctrl+KEY if pressed with something else, and ESC if pressed by itself. Best of all possible worlds.
- cheschire 7y agoFound the SunOS refugee!
- tayhobbs 7y agoI have both using Karabiner-Elements. Escape when pressed alone, ctrl if pressed with something else.
- 1_player 7y agoI had that setup, then I noticed something didn't feel quite right on some apps: apparently sometimes I tend to press Ctrl to enter some key combination, depress it immediately after and it fires the ESC key, which might have unintended consequences (i.e. closing a window I was reading)
- jamesfmilne 7y agoI do that on my Macbook Pro. The only drawback is when I go to any other machine that doesn't have Caps Lock remapped and I'm toggling caps lock on/off all the time. Particularly annoying when you're a vim user :D