Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:22PM
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What about if they have a touch bar but also have a hardware escape key? That's really the only thing about the touch bar Mac keyboard layout that I hate. (I don't actually mind the feel of the butterfly keys -- I'm typing on them now -- but I don't love them, either. Although if they kept this key feel, maybe just doubled the travel, and brought the reliability back in line with the older scissor switches, I'd be totally on board.)
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Yeah, I could deal with the touch bar if they had a physical button for the ESC key.
Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
by philwelch on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:44PM
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Remap caps lock.
Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
by chipotle_coyote on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:19AM
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I've gone back to remapping caps lock as a control key recently, so the two hacks conflict. :) (I know there are ways to remap the caps lock key to be both, depending on whether you tap it or hold it down with another key.)
Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
by philwelch on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:32AM
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Remap control to escape!
I wish I could remap my MBP arrowkeys to grow up and be full-sized keys...
Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
by chipotle_coyote on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:37PM
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Well, you're at least halfway there with the butterfly keys, since their left and right arrow keys are full-sized and only the up and down keys are half-height! Mac laptops previously have had half-height arrow keys literally for two decades, going back to 1998's PowerBook G3.