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!)
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I have no idea what Globe is btw, just seen it in the macOS options:
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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
I have only one question: Why? 
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AstonJ
Mostly Vim users (CTRL is used a lot) or those who hate CL being hit by accident! 
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