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On windows, I have capslock mapped thusly:

If pressed and released without another keypress in between, it sends ESC.

If pressed in combination with another key, it's CTRL.

I haven't found a way to do this dual mapping on OSX, so it's just CTRL there. I use AutoHotKey for this on windows.

I don't have my Mac in front of me, but you can do this using Seil[1] and Karabiner[2]. From recollection, you disable caps-link in OS X settings, use Seil to map caps-lock to control, and then use Karabiner to map tapped-ctrl to escape. Sounds a bit hackish, but it works very well.

You can also do the same thing on Linux using xcape[3]

[1]: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en [2]: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html.en [3]: https://github.com/alols/xcape

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