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The caps lock key as a key is essential, once remapped to something else. As a vim user, once remapped to Esc, everything makes much more sense, as your keyboar
by vander_elst 5y ago
The caps lock key as a key is essential, once remapped to something else. As a vim user, once remapped to Esc, everything makes much more sense, as your keyboard gets closer to the original keyboard on top of which vi was created https://images.app.goo.gl/wZkyxFosFF4jCRCJ8 https://images.app.goo.gl/wZkyxFosFF4jCRCJ8
- ntr-- 5y agofascinating! i always wondered why soft-BOL is set to such a difficult key to press (^) when it's such a useful movement.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoBut it's not necessarily a caps lock key, but an extra function key more easily accessible. There's quite a few keyboard designs out there that have button clusters for thumbs, so that you can use your thumbs for more than just pressing space.
- aasasd 5y agoIn the same vein: I discovered the pleasure of the major modifier being under the thumb on MacOS, triply astounding on the MS Natural 4000 keyboard with its huge alt keys (they map to ‘command’ on Mac due to the position). And then I learned that Emacs was made for keyboards where the ‘control’ keys are under the thumbs.
- maximus-decimus 5y agoI have an Ergodox EZ keyboard (which is programmable using QMK, or Oryx which is a wrapper around QMK) and I set caps lock to esc on tap but ctrl on hold. QMK supports as much as 4 different behaviors per key: - tap - hold - tap-hold - double tap And you can also set keys to change the layer each with their own behavior for caps lock.