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Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it? I map caps-lock to ESC/Hyper key which I find pretty useful.

Someone1234 7y ago
I can reach it from the starting row (ASDF) of my left hand without moving it. This might be more impactful to people with small hands.
dharmab 7y ago
I grew up playing games like StarCraft so I have muscle memory of moving my hand to the top row for control group management. It's no big deal.
asdf21 7y ago
Vim
rootusrootus 7y ago
I'm old and I've been using vim for decades. Remapping caps lock on the internal keyboard would just confuse me because I use my external keyboard as much as I use the internal one, and my external keyboard has caps lock remapped to Command.
- BigJ1211 7y ago
  The remapping can be used on all your connected keyboards and per keyboard, whatever you prefer. And if you want extended remapping I'd recommend https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ especially if you're missing the function keys, you can remap that to be fn + number row. So you will have easy access to those as well.
reificator 7y ago
> Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it? You're joking. You realize this forum is filled with programmers and other digital creative professionals, right?
- dpkonofa 7y ago
  I am both a digital creative professional and a developer/programmer and I can't remember when was the last time I pressed the escape key. If anything, it might have been to exit a full-screen video where the UI had mysteriously disappeared because some crappy website couldn't deal with an ad-blocker. Programmers and creative professionals don't unilaterally love or need the ESC key like you're suggesting.
  - tandav 7y ago
    For me frequent usecase for ESC is to hide some popup that you opened by accident. Like "Save As" dialog / rename file / Purchase SublimeText License / etc. In macOS you can hide many types of dialogs with ESC
    - dpkonofa 7y ago
      That's fine but you can still do that without the physical key, can't you? I'm still able to escape out of dialogs like that without needing a physical key.
      - reificator 7y ago
        You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...
- Jonovono 7y ago
  That's exactly what I mean, yall are smart, that's why I assumed yall would remap it somewhere that makes sense.
  - reificator 7y ago
    If anything, I'd remap capslock to be escape.
    - Jonovono 7y ago

Someone1234 7y ago

I can reach it from the starting row (ASDF) of my left hand without moving it. This might be more impactful to people with small hands.

dharmab 7y ago

I grew up playing games like StarCraft so I have muscle memory of moving my hand to the top row for control group management. It's no big deal.

asdf21 7y ago

Vim

rootusrootus 7y ago

I'm old and I've been using vim for decades. Remapping caps lock on the internal keyboard would just confuse me because I use my external keyboard as much as I use the internal one, and my external keyboard has caps lock remapped to Command.

BigJ1211 7y ago
The remapping can be used on all your connected keyboards and per keyboard, whatever you prefer. And if you want extended remapping I'd recommend https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ especially if you're missing the function keys, you can remap that to be fn + number row. So you will have easy access to those as well.

reificator 7y ago

> Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it? You're joking. You realize this forum is filled with programmers and other digital creative professionals, right?

dpkonofa 7y ago
I am both a digital creative professional and a developer/programmer and I can't remember when was the last time I pressed the escape key. If anything, it might have been to exit a full-screen video where the UI had mysteriously disappeared because some crappy website couldn't deal with an ad-blocker. Programmers and creative professionals don't unilaterally love or need the ESC key like you're suggesting.
- tandav 7y ago
  For me frequent usecase for ESC is to hide some popup that you opened by accident. Like "Save As" dialog / rename file / Purchase SublimeText License / etc. In macOS you can hide many types of dialogs with ESC
  - dpkonofa 7y ago
    That's fine but you can still do that without the physical key, can't you? I'm still able to escape out of dialogs like that without needing a physical key.
    - reificator 7y ago
      You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...
Jonovono 7y ago
That's exactly what I mean, yall are smart, that's why I assumed yall would remap it somewhere that makes sense.
- reificator 7y ago
  If anything, I'd remap capslock to be escape.
  - Jonovono 7y ago