Because they've mapped CapsLock to CTRL?

They should map both Control and Escape to Caps Lock. Control when combined with other key or held for longer than 250 ms, and Escape when pressed and released within 250 ms.

That's awesome, I had no idea you could do that. MacOS Sierra? Doesn't appear to be present in El Capitan Modifier keys - or is it a third party utility?

Can do it using Karabiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/).

Sadly doesn't support Sierra properly yet.

The original blog post that introduced me to this setup describes macOS setup: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...

On X11, https://github.com/alols/xcape just run `xcape -t 350 -e 'Control_L=Escape'`

On Windows, AutoHotkey: https://github.com/myfreeweb/dotfiles/blob/32c9cfd8d5e0a3a2c...

Check out ControllerMate. It lets you remap anything with complex logic.

plenty of games use ESC in input options as an exit out of selection. "Press key to bind or ESC to cancel", with your solution I would end up with unwanted CTRL binds

I don’t see how. Do 250 ms pass quicker when you’re in a game?

But ctrl is FIRE! Well, it was until games started to suck.