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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by patrec on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:12AM (#23699851)
Still wasteful. Map Capslock to both Escape and Ctrl and never look back

https://github.com/alols/xcape (for linux)

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/132564/how-can-i-r... (for macOS)

https://github.com/ililim/dual-key-remap (for windows)

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by austhrow743 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:17AM (#23700220)
What's the advantage to having control on it as well? Do people have trouble reaching the control key?
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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by patrec on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:41PM (#23706370)
Try it (or swap caps and control for day, to make sure you don't accidentally "cheat"). On most keyboards reaching the control key is very unergonomic compared to the capslock key. I wonder how many cases of RSI could be avoided by this simple tweak alone.
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