[eyko]

I've used vim on and off for about 15 years now. I now use Emacs + evil or any other editor with vim key bindings. I've never remapped the ESC key.

Do you all remap the key at the OS level or do you remap it in your .vimrc? Getting rid of caps lock is attractive enough that I'm willing to give it a try. I never knew it was a thing and that that many people remapped ESC.

I'm also wondering what happens to the caps lock green light on the Macbook. Does it stay off since caps lock is never actually enabled?

[V99]

Sierra includes a built-in option to map any of the modifier keys to Escape. And if you use caps lock, the light does stay off.

[rimantas]

Caps lock on Mac has also some slight delay for the activation (to avoid being turned on by accident). I gues this is disabled on remap too?