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What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
by fmajid 7y ago
What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
- ceejayoz 7y agoPeople who value the Escape key were never going to make an iPad their primary computer anyways.
- sirn 7y agoI value an Escape key (being emacs/evil user) and use iPad Pro as my primary computer for the past 2 years. The trick is you just use a real keyboard with it (HHKB-BT in my case) :-)
- kstrauser 7y agoHow do you know if someone uses a mechanical keyboard? Don't worry, they'll tell you. (I hailstormed this message on Cherry MX Blues.)
- fmajid 7y agoSpeak for yourself. I value the Esc key and I spend at least 4 hours a day on my iPad, more than on my Mac or Linux laptops.
- mstade 7y agoWhat would the escape key do in iPadOS though? There isn't one on the on screen keyboard, never has been.
- sirn 7y agoCmd + . actually acts as Escape key on iPadOS. It’s not a replacement for a physical escape key, but I don’t find it too hard to adopt.
- teejmya 7y agoWow, thank you. This isn't very discoverable but will be super useful for me.
- throwaway894345 7y agoWhat about on MacOS? The trackbar escape key is super flaky...
- lelf 7y agoCtrl + [
- dodobirdlord 7y agoThere's a setting to convert caps lock into escape.
- unethical_ban 7y agoTheir new models are reverting that design.
- JoelTheSuperior 7y agoTo be honest it never really bothered me once I realised that a lot of iPad apps let me rebind the caps lock key to work as escape. I'd just love for them to make that option available globally like it is on the Mac.
- mercutio2 7y agoThe forthcoming beta of iOS adds global keybindings for caps lock.
- sirn 7y agoNot only that, but also native KeyUp and KeyDown events[1] without needing a JavaScript hacks! This means keychord-type shortcuts are now also possible in an app that wants to use it (e.g. an IDE, if someone is building one), or app-specific key remapping (e.g. Blink.sh, which currently uses JavaScript to detect and remap the key) [1]: https://twitter.com/johnsundell/status/1225177084965851137 https://twitter.com/johnsundell/status/1225177084965851137
- 45ure 7y agoI am always baffled, when the keyboard + iPad issue is brought up, perhaps my use-case is unique. I use a Apple A1314 Keyboard, which has an ESC key, it is Bluetooth enabled with decent key travel, and cheap to acquire. It is just a matter of popping the iPad Pro 10.5 (2017) on an after market stand and/or propping it atop a stack of books if required, it is a good solution and works well, even for a touch-typist like myself. However, I would appreciate better support for MX Master as opposed to the current solution via Accessibility.
- fmajid 7y agoI use the Magic Keyboard myself, or the Kanex MultiSync https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZ2TKIR/ https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZ2TKIR/ that has support for 3 devices and keyboard backlighting. What I really want is a proper mechanical keyboard with good BT support, hopefully the Keychron K6 I have on order will be the ticket.
- wlesieutre 7y agoiPadOS 13.4 will let you remap the useless capslock key to esc: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/02/06/ipados-13-4-hardware-key-remapping/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/02/06/ipados-13-4-hardwar...
- fmajid 7y agoI prefer to remap it to Control_L, that's where I have it in muscle memory. But I also need a Meta key for Emacs.
- wlesieutre 7y agoYou could put esc on control and control on caps?
- williamdclt 7y agoCompletely off-topic, but for everybody that maps Caps Lock to esc, how do you ctrl-tab? That's what my Caps Lock is mapped to, and I cannot understand how ctrl-tab can be any sort of comfortable to reach on a standard layout?
- 333c 7y agoI haven't mapped my caps lock to anything else, but on my Mac I ⌘-tab, which is pretty natural for my thumb and fourth finger given the position of the ⌘ key next to the space bar.
- apazzolini 7y agoThe best solution I've found is mapping caps lock to control on hold, and escape on press. You can do this with Karabiner on OS X, ililim/dual-key-remap on Windows, and alols/xcape on Linux.
- technovader 7y ago> The best solution I've found is mapping caps lock to control on hold, and escape on press. wow. just wow.