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by spanhandler 2140 days ago
MacOS’ cmd is a thumb press for me, except “cmd+space” which I just reposition my whole hand for, and making caps lock a control (a setting available in the system settings, not an addon or command line tweak or anything) means no more scrunching my wrist down and left to reach that. I miss the cmd thing very much when I’m not on Mac, and I did 15ish years of Windows and Linux first so it’s not because that’s what I knew first.

OTOH by making trackpads not-hell to use they’ve allowed me to discover that too many days in a row of that wreck my right wrist pretty badly.
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btown 2140 days ago
The macOS program Karabiner (especially in combination with BetterTouchTools) lets you go far beyond this, mapping arbitrary keys not just to different modifier keys but to any action desired.

Incredibly useful for coding (I have Caps Lock change focus between my IDE and most recent non-IDE window for mouse-free iteration cycles) and Mac gaming (tab-targeting is much more powerful with the caps lock button in play!)

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gimboland 2140 days ago
+1 on karabiner and BTT; if using karabiner, perhaps check out goku: it gives you a much nicer language for writing karabiner profiles than just slogging them out in pure json.

https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

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