Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?

Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by bengale on Saturday May 12, 2018 @10:54AM (#17054310)

If you don't use capslock you can set the keyboard to map that to escape.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by PascLeRasc on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17054345)

I think that's the de facto control key on Macbooks since they aren't in the bottom left corner. It'd be cool if we could configure a single caps lock keypress to Esc and holding it down to Control.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by raihansaputra on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:19AM (#17064226)

That is possible using Karabiner/Karabiner-Elements. I currently have Caps Lock mapped to Escape and Hyper (for vi like arrows)

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by brazzledazzle on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:14AM (#17054402)

I use mine for escape and hadn’t considered using it for control. Is it more comfortable?

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by copperx on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:28AM (#17062688)

It's indispensable because OS X has Emacs bindings in all standard controls. Control A, E, K, P, N, C, D.

These keybindings are one of the only reasons I have stayed with OS X. I'm surprised that others use Cmd-arrow combinations instead.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by PascLeRasc on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:48AM (#17054584)

Since I'm just using it for ctrl+c in a terminal, it's much more comfortable.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by copperx on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:08AM (#17054378)

Anyone sane has already remapped it to control.

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