A useful Caps Lock key

Re:A useful Caps Lock key by mattengi on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:14AM (#6970252)

In linux, if you want to make Capslock as both ESC and Ctrl,

    $ setxkboption -option -option 'ctrl:nocaps'
    $ xcape

https://github.com/alols/xcape

What is good for?

  - Happy with vim
  - Happy with emacs like - readline - keybinding. C-a, C-e, C-u, C-k, C-d, C-h, C-w, C-p, C-n, C-y ...
  - Ctrl key is most used in any gui application.

You can abandon both bottomleft Ctrl and topleft Esc.

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Re:A useful Caps Lock key by StavrosK on Friday December 27, 2013 @06:26AM (#6970286)

How does that work? Pressing it alone is escape, pressing it in combination with another key is Ctrl?

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Re:A useful Caps Lock key by mattengi on Friday December 27, 2013 @08:29AM (#6970516)

Yes

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Re:A useful Caps Lock key by keenerd on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:19AM (#6970876)

If you use Emacs, I've heard great things about used xkb to remap spacebar to control, and using xcape to make control generate a space when tapped. It sounds messy but now you'll get emacs thumb instead of emacs pinky.

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