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Comment by LesZedCB | Hacker News Reader

Long live the Capslock-as-control-key master race. :)

emacs user! another to be expunged.

all hail <esc> as caps lock!

    for on that day,
        all shall be in normal mode,
      on the day of text
        one will `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim`

-- from the book of vim 2:12

The best way to deal with Caps Lock is to make it a Control Key when used as a modifier (held down when another key is pressed), but Escape when typed by itself. There's a program for GNU/Linux called xscape that does exactly that.

That sounds great! I am trying it right now...

FYI it's here: https://github.com/alols/xcape

You should be able to do that with only XKB, but Xorg XKB seems somewhat buggy and the documentation is scattered, so you'd have a bit of work ahead of you.

I use vim and have caps lock bound to control. I use Ctrl-[ to switch to normal mode and ctrl is so much more useful outside of just vim.

I remapped jj to esc, for what it's worth, so I don't have to reach for anything. I'm one of the Capslock-as-ctrl people as well, and a vim user.

me too

I have done no remapping but Ctrl-[ is very good for my wrists.

Get over yourself! ed(1) is the TRUE text editor.

Spacemacs! Spacemacs! Spacemacs!

I'm actually a Vimmer :)

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