> Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it?

You're joking. You realize this forum is filled with programmers and other digital creative professionals, right?

I am both a digital creative professional and a developer/programmer and I can't remember when was the last time I pressed the escape key. If anything, it might have been to exit a full-screen video where the UI had mysteriously disappeared because some crappy website couldn't deal with an ad-blocker.

Programmers and creative professionals don't unilaterally love or need the ESC key like you're suggesting.

For me frequent usecase for ESC is to hide some popup that you opened by accident.

Like "Save As" dialog / rename file / Purchase SublimeText License / etc. In macOS you can hide many types of dialogs with ESC

That's fine but you can still do that without the physical key, can't you? I'm still able to escape out of dialogs like that without needing a physical key.

You can also type on a smartphone without a physical keyboard...

That's exactly what I mean, yall are smart, that's why I assumed yall would remap it somewhere that makes sense.

If anything, I'd remap capslock to be escape.

Ya, i've used this: https://brettterpstra.com/2017/06/15/a-hyper-key-with-karabi... to do that.

And having the hyper key is awesome (command+control+option+shift). Makes it super handy for shortcuts to open commonly used program shortcuts like calendar etc

I'm old and I've been using vim for decades. Remapping caps lock on the internal keyboard would just confuse me because I use my external keyboard as much as I use the internal one, and my external keyboard has caps lock remapped to Command.

The remapping can be used on all your connected keyboards and per keyboard, whatever you prefer.

And if you want extended remapping I'd recommend https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ especially if you're missing the function keys, you can remap that to be fn + number row. So you will have easy access to those as well.

I grew up playing games like StarCraft so I have muscle memory of moving my hand to the top row for control group management. It's no big deal.

I can reach it from the starting row (ASDF) of my left hand without moving it. This might be more impactful to people with small hands.

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