News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines. Parent comment

Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines by cup-of-tea on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:17AM (#16762604)
Having to "touch" a completely different surface to press escape sounds absolutely awful. Unless there's a way to swap escape for a real key that you don't need I would consider that machine defective.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines by bvy on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:37PM (#16767034)
Ctrl+[ is more ergonomic anyways. After I started using that, I realized how much I hated using Esc for anything.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines by reificator on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:27AM (#16762667)
There's a builtin toggle to map the capslock key to escape.

Not that that makes the touchbar good, but at least you can remove a useless key in favor of a useful one.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines by cup-of-tea on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:52AM (#16763328)
Capslock isn't entirely useless. I have mapped my capslock key to control but I still have access to it via a function key and do use it occasionally. Why do you think capslock is useless?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines by reificator on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:05AM (#16763385)
Because on the very rare occasion in which I want to capitalize more than one word, I can either hold shift, use tab-completion, or highlight in my editor and switch case.
[ Parent | on HN ]