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Map Caps Lock to Escape for Vim

caps-escape-vim

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As an avid vim user (better than emacs!), I'm having to escape out of different
modes pretty often.  Hitting the escape button on most keyboards adds a lot of
friction being pretty far away from home row on a keyboard (not to mention
simply missing on some versions of Macbooks).  I've therefore remapped caps
lock to escape to make it much easier to work with Vim.

For a mac, this is pretty easy and is built directly into MacOS.  Within System
Preferences -> Keyboard, you can edit Modifier Keys and remap Caps Lock to
Escape.

![Modifier Keys](/static/notes/20211125-0556.png)

Update 2021-11-25 from the [@hrs](https://harryrschwartz.com/):

> DID YOU KNOW that it's also possible to bind caps lock to both escape
> (when pressed individually) AND control (when chording)? I've been doing that
> forever and it's quite nice. The free MacOS tool for that is
> [Karabiner](https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/)