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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by SomeOldThrow on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:37PM (#20569932)
If only it were so easy to remap my hand! Caps lock is already dedicated to control and most apps don’t support ^[.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by jnevelson on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:40PM (#20570354)
Check out Karabiner Elements (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/).

You can create a rule to change caps lock to control if pressed with other keys, else escape if pressed alone.

I have no affiliation with it, just ran into this issue myself and it solved it for me.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by Lio on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:09AM (#20572264)
That kind of highlights an issue for me though. If Apple were really on the ball with macOS they would have a better remap utility built in.

Instead we have Karabiner Elements which has been of mixed stability in my experience.

Many times I've had it completely disable the internal keyboard on my late 2013 MBP to the point where I have to plug in a USB keyboard to recover or if on the road do a force power reset.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:40PM (#20570353)
Ok then it you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape.

There are many valid criticisms of the touch bar macs, losing one key in particular is pretty low on the list.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:54PM (#20570441)
> i[f] you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape

The whole reason to remap caps lock to ctrl is that ctrl is in a terrible location.

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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ses1984 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:49AM (#20573541)
Escape is in a relatively terrible location as well, the default ctrl location is just as bad, hence remapping escape there isn't really worse than escape in the top left.
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