[abtinf]

You say swapped, I say its the correct placement. I use control much more frequently than fn, and its easier to reach it with my pinky on the thinkpad keyboard.

[ams6110]

Me too, that's why I have Control and Caps-Lock swapped.

[StavrosK]

Caps lock master race, reporting in. It's amazing how well-suited Caps lock is to act as the Ctrl key. Go through the pain of remapping for a day, feel great using your new, anatomic Ctrl for the rest of your life.

Seriously, do it now. In two days, you'll thank me.

[bsimpson]

Inspired by the Search key in ChromeOS, I've been mapping Caps-A to "Quick Open File…" and Caps-S to "Command Palette…" in Sublime for years. It's wickedly convenient.

[krylon]

As a heavy emacs user, this was one of the best things I ever did. I used to think the term "emacs pinky" was a joke, but it is really not.

And anyway, I cannot remember needing CapsLock even a single time, but I do remember hitting it by accident many times, so I do not really miss it.

[technomancy]

It's a start, but I'm much happier having moved it to under my thumb.

[RevRal]

A variation: Caps-Lock swapped with Backspace. This has worked well for me.

[salgernon]

That'd be rubout on a Symbolics keyboard isn't it?

[RevRal]

Aye :)

[xamuel]

My favorite: map caps-lock to left mouse click.

[windsurfer]

I agree with you that it's easier to reach, but it's harder to find the ctrl key by feel. That being said, I haven't swapped the keys in my bios, and I've gotten used to this layout...

[bryanlarsen]

Don't use your pinky, use the meat of your hand to press the control key.

[1ris]

That way I also press Shift, Fn and the Windows key, while holing my hand in a very unergonomic position.

[yincrash]

This is how I also use the control key, using the bone in my hand right where the pinky attaches to the hand. When ctrl is in the very corner, it's easy to press. When it's to the right of the fn (like on the apple keyboard I am currently using), it is significantly harder.

[tjoff]

How is that physically possible?

I had a temporary job transcribing videotaped meetings to text and I used ctrl a lot for controlling the video. That fn placement almost killed my left hand, would have been perfectly fine if they were switched but that alone greatly limited my freedom of movement as I really wanted to borrow a sane keyboard wherever I went.

edit: I guess it must depend on the size of the keyboard. On the x-series it was unforgivable.

[platz]

swap ALT and CTRL, then map CAPS to ALT. Then you can hit "CTRL" with your left thumb.

[theGimp]

I tried pressing Alt with my left thumb, and it felt like playing Twister using my hand.

Hats off to your dutiful fingers.