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The funny thing is that I know a few people who do this. (Holding Caps Lock = CTRL, tapping Caps Lock = ESC)
by wlue 14y ago
The funny thing is that I know a few people who do this. (Holding Caps Lock = CTRL, tapping Caps Lock = ESC)
- demetrius 14y agoWhat an excellent idea! If I didn’t use CapsLock for choosing keyboard layout, I would have done this...
- djisjke 14y agoHow could we not think about this? It's genius! How is it done? Does your buddy use X, mac or where in the stack is the hack?
- wlue 14y agoOn OS X, you can use KeyRemap4Macbook (http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/) to turn on the feature with a bit of hackery. I have not figured out how to do it on Windows, but I imagine that it might be possible with AutoHotKey.
- hudibras 14y agoI'm slightly embarassed to admit that I remapped them after reading this: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#controlescape http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
- why-el 14y agoI read about it in one of Steve Yegge's Emacs posts. Now I use it everywhere!
- xnxn 14y agoI got this working on my system (running X) with the help of a daemon (https://github.com/alols/xcape https://github.com/alols/xcape). $ setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps $ xcape Now I just have to flog my muscle memory into submission.