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Honestly, the only thing I will miss is the escape button but that was misplaced on the keyboard anyways. 10.12.1 added support for making caps lock into an escape key and that's if anything an improvement over where escape was before.

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I agree that caps lock is an improvement over escape's location. But, if you're like me, you also find it to be an improvement over control's location so you have caps lock mapped to that already so rebinding esc to caps lock is not an option.

You can have the best of both worlds on *nix: tap == ESC, hold == CTRL http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...

That's not a bad option and I had not considered it. I will try it out, thanks!

Interesting, but on macOS 10.12.x it must be Karabiner-Elements and at least the UI does not make me replicate this behavior.

Editing the JSON config will do the trick as described here: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/issues/8

There is also a solution for Hammerspoon users here: https://gist.github.com/arbelt/b91e1f38a0880afb316dd5b573275...

Or Keyboard Maestro: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256055

https://files.grid.in.th/11RiNt.png

For ages I've had ~ remapped to escape (if no modifiers pressed so tilde still works as expected, and caps to ctrl) so the missing ESC isn't a big deal, although I did have it remapped for `

Anyone looking for extremely fine grain keymap control (with a UI that far surpasses any kind of keyboard remapping I've tried doing in Linux) should look up karabiner.

https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner

Make sure you don't upgrade to Sierra yet! The next version of Karabiner (karabiner-elements) that works on Sierra is still under development.

but where will i put the ctrl key then :(

in all seriousness, switching the ctrl - caps lock keys was probably the best layout improving decisions i've ever made. highly recommending it for ergonomic and health reasons.

I use caps lock as control.

Then you can now use control as escape if you so desire.

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