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Do you remap Caps Lock?

AstonJ

AstonJ

Do you remap Caps Lock?

Curious whether you remap your Caps Lock.

Do you remap your Caps Lock key?

  • No - I keep it as Caps Lock
  • Yes - to nothing/no action
  • Yes - to Control
  • Yes - to Option
  • Yes - to Command
  • Yes - to Globe
  • Yes - to Escape
  • Yes - to Back Space
  • Yes - to FN
  • Yes - to something else (please say in thread!)
0 voters

I have no idea what Globe is btw, just seen it in the macOS options:

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toon159

toon159

My Caps Lock was for changing input sources, after reading this post, I moved it to the globe key and remapped Caps Lock to Escape instead.

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Eiji

Eiji

I have only one question: Why? :joy:

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AstonJ

AstonJ

Mostly Vim users (CTRL is used a lot) or those who hate CL being hit by accident! :lol:

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