I’ve solved this problem for myself by using Microsoft’s own PowerToys for key-remapping on Windows. A few of the other features are nice too (FancyZones for custom window tiling, an app launcher) and the rest are cute but ultimately useless for me.
I’ve been using caps lock for ctrl for about a year now and I’m pretty hooked at this point. Since moving to a 60% board, however, I’m starting to rethink that in favor of a left handed Fn. I wouldn’t think this would help me with that, though.
After I got handed a 2019 15” Macbook Pro as my work computer I started to do this. Thanks to Karabiner-Elements I can apply the change only when using the built-in keyboard (no physicall esc key).
I actually really like my caps lock key. I sometimes think about remapping it but then would realize I’d miss it a lot if it was gone… it is really useful for trying to type one-handed, which I’ve been doing a lot more of lately with the baby and all.
Regarding Caps Lock: MacOS has supported remapping this (and some other keys) for years.
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
I used to use a key remapper app, but as the only thing I really care about is Caps Lock -> Escape the built-in functionality has been enough for me
But I also use it to rearrange the modifier keys on my Microsoft Sculpt to match my Macbook
MacOS 10.15 also lets you remap caps lock to switch key maps.
Yes! This is discussed in the README too in the Mac: System Preferences section. Quoting it here:
I’ve solved this problem for myself by using Microsoft’s own PowerToys for key-remapping on Windows. A few of the other features are nice too (FancyZones for custom window tiling, an app launcher) and the rest are cute but ultimately useless for me.
I’ve been using caps lock for ctrl for about a year now and I’m pretty hooked at this point. Since moving to a 60% board, however, I’m starting to rethink that in favor of a left handed Fn. I wouldn’t think this would help me with that, though.
After I got handed a 2019 15” Macbook Pro as my work computer I started to do this. Thanks to Karabiner-Elements I can apply the change only when using the built-in keyboard (no physicall esc key).
I actually really like my caps lock key. I sometimes think about remapping it but then would realize I’d miss it a lot if it was gone… it is really useful for trying to type one-handed, which I’ve been doing a lot more of lately with the baby and all.
I really like using a remapped caps lock combined with Sticky Keys. It means I can get a shift-lock by tapping the shift key twice.
I’ve found casually mentioning “I use caps lock sometimes” brings people out of the woodwork really fast for some reason.
I have my reasons, such as C_MACROS. Holding shift is a waste of effort.