[jonplackett]

Guaranteed anyone who doesn’t mind just doesn’t need to use escape very much.

The problem with touchbar is it’s hard to use without looking at it - like most professionals do because it’s just muscle memory.

Give me a real escape and I won’t mind the rest being a touch Bar.

But I hope they make it like gaming keyboards that have real keys with tiny lcd displays on so you can customise the function but still have a real key to press.

[chrischen]

I am a heavy programmer, and I do not mind the touch Esc key. It’s a bigger hit box. Though it does not offer tactile feedback, I find that just something to get used to as you don’t really need to locate it through tactile feedback.

It very much is a small set of people who complain loudly about the touchbar, and many of whom have not even used it that just think they won’t like it.

[alashow]

You can map your Caps Lock key to Esc.

[rbanffy]

Caps lock is where God wanted Control to be.

[foldr]

You can map it so that tapping caps lock is escape and holding it down is control.

[sooheon]

Then you have to set a timeout, which introduces lag in your typing.

[foldr]

Only for the escape key. I don't find that there's any noticeable lag in practice.

[darkpuma]

It can be both. I know people who have it configured to be escape when it's pressed and released, but control when it's held down in combination with another key.

[zerkten]

How do you do that? I normally use the keyboard preferences to change the capslock on my MBP to control. I'd like escape there too, but I'd like to avoid running additional software to enable it.

[switz]

I use Karabiner and it's truly a wonderful piece of software. I'm super sensitive to any lag or missent keys, but this actually works very well and I don't even think about it anymore.

Here's the modification I use: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/complex_modifications/#caps_l...

"Change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone."

[darkpuma]

I'm not sure. I think on linux/X11 it's just xmodmap wizardry, any maybe on macos you need third party software, but don't take my word for it. It's not something I've really investigated since I'm personally satisfied with capslock=escape.

[pushpop]

Which just means you then rewrite your muscle memory to hit caps lock on all your colleagues computers by accident.

No thank you.

[kosievdmerwe]

I use Ctrl+[ instead of escape a lot of the times. Granted this is with mapping caps lock to control.

I’m afraid of mapping the caps lock to escape as a holdover from flash games where escape quit your game and so I fear destructive actions if I accidentally press escape instead of the “a” key, whereas if I accidentally press control nothing happens.

[gothroach]

Am I the only one who actually uses the caps lock daily in this era? I see people remapping it all the time, and wonder.