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0 pointsjtms6y ago0 comments

I rebind caps lock to escape - it’s a much better use of an otherwise nearly pointless key

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I use caps lock the moment I need to type 2 consecutive upper case characters.

Reading through the comments here, it’s amusing to see how many people make assumptions about how things should be just because that’s how they work.

Someone above claimed that not being able to blind type function keys shows severe keyboard incompetence, something all trained computer typists should be able to do.

Well what about us poor souls who are trained mechanical typewriter typists? We didn’t have function keys?

The age discrimination is real!

V-26y ago

I rebind it to backspace, as in the Colemak layout.

This works pretty great, especially since eg. ctrl + backspace (I don't know about Macs, does cmd + backspace work?) deletes the entire last word.

Without remapping the capslock you need both hands to execute this shortcut, which makes it much less practical.

neoromantique6y ago

It's only pointless if you have a single layout.

It's very useful to switch input layouts.

squiggleblaz6y ago

Then it's not capslock. By using it to switch input layouts, you admitted it's useless.

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