Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi)

Re:Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) by WildUtah on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:36PM (#1296848)

I've remapped caps lock to ESC

I find that Mac keyboards are very difficult to remap. Is there any reason for that? Or maybe there's some utility that handles remapping I just can't find. Buggy as it is, I miss xmodmap.

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Re:Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) by banjiewen on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:07PM (#1296927)

If you're just remapping modifier keys, the Keyboard prefs pane works well (not sure if it's part of Leopard, though).

If you want to map something to ESC, try PCKeyboardHack: http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html

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Re:Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) by cloudhead on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:15PM (#1296951)

You can remap the modifier keys (Caps Lock, Alt, Cmd) from the preferences pannel, in Keyboard. There's a button at the bottom, called "Modifier Keys..."

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Re:Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) by idoh on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @12:50AM (#1297240)

This is true but that utility won't let you remap Caps to Esc.

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Re:Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi) by chancho on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:21PM (#1296964)

Very good Mac keyboard remapper: http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

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