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0 pointsLio6y ago0 comments

I prefer mapping caps to Ctrl over escape because it leaves me with loads of other useful shortcuts in both the terminal and Vim.

e.g. Ctrl-o to pop out of insert mode for 1 command only.

  ctrl-w: delete the last word.

  ctrl-u: delete to the beginning of the line.

  ctrl-d or ctrl-t: change indent level.

  ctrl-h: backspace without leaving the home row.

  ctrl-m: without leaving the home row.

There's loads more that are useful in Vim. Of course you've still got the built in Ctrl keys but having ctrl in place of caps is really ergonomic for me.

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godelski6y ago

I just tried that and that is super uncomfortable to me. Having all my fingers on the home row. My pinkies are much shorter than my index, middle, and ring, so it is pretty easy to hit ctrl with my pinky. I think your suggestion might be better if all your fingers are very similar in length, but I don't know a person like that.

I do use most of those ctrl commands btw. I didn't know about ctrl-o, so thanks for that!

LioOP6y ago

Horses for courses I guess.

My little finger is much shorter than the rest but moving it a few mm to the left is easier than a large jump to the bottom of the keyboard for me.

For example, I use tmux a lot with ctrl-a.

A small movement of the hand left, jumping my little finger onto control (caps) and using my ring finger on A works really well for me.

Btw the first thing I do on getting a new mac is map the right alt key (or enter key back in the day) to control.

I hate having to press both keys with one hand for Ctrl key combos (ctrl-a being the only exception).

godelski6y ago

Interesting. Because resting my left hand on the keyboard my pinky is on shift, ring on a, middle on e, index on f.

I also use tmux. I do a remapping to ctrl-s because I use ctrl-a (and ctrl-e) all the time to go to the beginning and end of lines. And let's be real, the normal behavior of ctrl-s (suspending) is not something I'm ever going to use on purpose.

But also I'm not using a mac.

> I hate having to press both keys with one hand for Ctrl key combos (ctrl-a being the only exception).

Do you not use panes? In vim? Because I use those quite a lot.

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0 pointsLio6y ago0 comments

I prefer mapping caps to Ctrl over escape because it leaves me with loads of other useful shortcuts in both the terminal and Vim.

e.g. Ctrl-o to pop out of insert mode for 1 command only.

  ctrl-w: delete the last word.

  ctrl-u: delete to the beginning of the line.

  ctrl-d or ctrl-t: change indent level.

  ctrl-h: backspace without leaving the home row.

  ctrl-m: without leaving the home row.

There's loads more that are useful in Vim. Of course you've still got the built in Ctrl keys but having ctrl in place of caps is really ergonomic for me.

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godelski6y ago

I do use most of those ctrl commands btw. I didn't know about ctrl-o, so thanks for that!

LioOP6y ago

Horses for courses I guess.

My little finger is much shorter than the rest but moving it a few mm to the left is easier than a large jump to the bottom of the keyboard for me.

For example, I use tmux a lot with ctrl-a.

A small movement of the hand left, jumping my little finger onto control (caps) and using my ring finger on A works really well for me.

Btw the first thing I do on getting a new mac is map the right alt key (or enter key back in the day) to control.

I hate having to press both keys with one hand for Ctrl key combos (ctrl-a being the only exception).

godelski6y ago

Interesting. Because resting my left hand on the keyboard my pinky is on shift, ring on a, middle on e, index on f.

But also I'm not using a mac.

> I hate having to press both keys with one hand for Ctrl key combos (ctrl-a being the only exception).

Do you not use panes? In vim? Because I use those quite a lot.

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