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I swear sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the world that thinks hitting the ESC key is easy and no big deal. Maybe it’s decades of doing it, and I don’t consider myself especially dexterous, but I never have any problem with it.
I swear sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the world that thinks hitting the ESC key is easy and no big deal. Maybe it’s decades of doing it, and I don’t consider myself especially dexterous, but I never have any problem with it.
(And I don’t want to use Caps Lock for that, Backspace on the other corner of the keyboard is far less convenient, that’s what I want Caps Lock to be.)
I resolved this pain by making the Caps Lock key work as it should: tap for “Esc” and hold for “Control”. Then I took the Escape key and made it Caps Lock—it’s occasionally useful, but not nearly enough to warrant a home row position. You can do this with Karaniner Elements on macOS. There’s a way to do it on Windows too, but how escapes me at the moment.
I swear sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the world that thinks hitting the ESC key is easy and no big deal. Maybe it’s decades of doing it, and I don’t consider myself especially dexterous, but I never have any problem with it.
I tend to use escape in most circumstances, but I am increasingly partial to Ctrl-[ when using certain keyboards where the escape key is a bit too far for me. It's another option that's always available by default.
I resolved this pain by making the Caps Lock key work as it should: tap for “Esc” and hold for “Control”. Then I took the Escape key and made it Caps Lock—it’s occasionally useful, but not nearly enough to warrant a home row position. You can do this with Karaniner Elements on macOS. There’s a way to do it on Windows too, but how escapes me at the moment.
Makes zero sense ergonomically to put the CTRL key on the home row.
I tried it for about 0.05 seconds and after pressing CTRL+Z one time I knew it was not a good idea for me. pinky finger does not like pressing a key while being on a higher row than another finger also pressing a key. painful.
I resolved this pain by making the Caps Lock key work as it should: tap for “Esc” and hold for “Control”. Then I took the Escape key and made it Caps Lock—it’s occasionally useful, but not nearly enough to warrant a home row position. You can do this with Karaniner Elements on macOS. There’s a way to do it on Windows too, but how escapes me at the moment.
For Windows 10 people: Microsoft PowerToys has a "remap keys" function within the Keyboard Manager. It's very convenient and easy to use.
I've tried modifying the Super / Win key. It would often happen that the keyboard would become unusable and behave like if it had the Win key stuck, even though it was remapped to something else.
This actually happened on Windows 11, not 10 (never tried on that). I don't know if it makes a difference.
Personally I have remapped caps to ESC system wide and it’s a pleasure to work with
I've always used Ctrl + C. I thought everyone did the same. Can't even remember where I learnt it from.