Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion

Re:Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion by goldfeld on Saturday March 30, 2013 @01:35AM (#5464541)

Is Cmd+R such a hard to reach combination to warrant the precious keyboard real state Caps Lock occupies? Me, I double mine as both Ctrl and Esc by using the excellent xcape https://github.com/alols/xcape on linux, and KeyRemap4MacBook otherwise.

I actually find it more relevant on my mac than on my linux box, since Ctrl on the Mac is in a horrible position, and it opens up a whole world of new easy shortcuts that conflict with little else. Plus Ctrl-C and Ctrl-L (clear) on the terminal.

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Re:Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion by Keyneston on Saturday March 30, 2013 @02:01AM (#5464614)

I use my caps as both ctrl and escape by having it mapped to control. Then if you need escape ctrl+[. It requires one finger from each hand and is very quick to press. Then if I want to page up or down in vim I still have the ctrl button easily reachable for ctrl+d and ctrl+u, etc.

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Re:Remapping Caps Lock on OS X Mountain Lion by p_almer on Saturday March 30, 2013 @02:00AM (#5464609)

Good point, however I honestly hit cmd+r more often than I hit Ctrl + anything. Whenever I do hit Control (such as in terminal for ctrl+c as you mentioned) it's much more deliberate and 'one-off'. Different workflows I guess.

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