The ‘here is’ key

Re:The ‘here is’ key by eridius on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:39PM (#15066163)

> They did. Under System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys… you can now map Caps Lock to Escape which you couldn’t before.

You've been able to do that for at least a couple of years now.

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by sirn on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:56PM (#15066293)

Before Sierra, you could only map to Control but not Escape.

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by sedachv on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:08PM (#15068215)

There was software such as PCKeyboardHack/Karabiner and something else before that that let you do remappings not available through Keyboard Preferences. Every Mac OS X release breaks keyboard internals and things like PCKeyboardHack stop working (Sierra was out for almost a year before Karabiner Elements was fully functional). Mac OS X support for custom keyboard layouts is atrocious, and IMO Macbook keyboards are garbage compared to shaped (models up to x220/t420) Thinkpad keyboards. If you look around at some of the different keyboard layouts and try some remappings out what you will probably find is that remapping Caps Lock to Backspace is the best for general typing (this started with the MIT AI Lab's "Knight TV" terminals designed by Tom Knight). I haven't tried it but this should be possible with Karabiner Elements in Sierra now.

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Re:The ‘here is’ key by eridius on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:01PM (#15066324)

Huh ok, I only ever map it to Control so I didn't pay too much attention. Good to know.

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