Handy Keymaps in Vim

Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim by boomlinde on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:49AM (#20028341)

IMO making it a control key is a better choice (I tried both at some point) because chording with awkward keys is worse than just pressing them, and the control keys are placed awkwardly on most keyboards. Since you can end insertion mode with ^[ you then have a pretty comfortable chord that doesn't stray far from the home row to replace the escape key.

I had a tool on a mac that would make caps lock equivalent to escape if it was pressed and released alone, and control if it was chorded. Sounded great on paper but I underestimated how often i press control before realizing I don't want to perform a chord.

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Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim by zipperhead on Saturday June 01, 2019 @09:32AM (#20069085)

Make it both! From http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...

  xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape;Control_L=Escape;Control_R=Escape'

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Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim by neonroku on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:27AM (#20030373)

Karabiner Elements is great for doing this kind of remapping on macOS

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

The equivalent for Windows would probably be AutoHotkey

https://www.autohotkey.com/

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Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim by Tsiklon on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:43AM (#20031247)

OS X can natively set Caps Lock (or any of the other modifiers) to CTRL,ALT,CMD,Esc,Caps. in the Keyboard Pref Pane at least as of 10.13.

Of course Karabiner can do quite a bit more than that. But if you can't or don't want to install more software it's a choice available to you.

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Re:Handy Keymaps in Vim by joeldo on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:29PM (#20036068)

That's an interesting idea as well. I've always found reaching for the 'Esc' key to be more awkward than the 'ctrl' key, but undoubtedly I use the 'ctrl' key more often than the 'esc' key outside of Vim, so perhaps the sheer volume of use would make it worth it.

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