[stainforth]

Just curious, would/do you do a lot of pinkie stretch movements i.e. to hit ctrl? I've remapped using autohotkey ctrl to caps lock on my personal computer and its a godsend to bypass this. I seriously think this should've been the convention. I wish I could enable it on my locked down work laptop.

[hbn]

Worth noting Microsoft actually distributes an "official" (quotes cause it was made by an employee seemingly out of their own desire, but it's distributed on MS's website) program that maps ctrl to capslock. Aptly named, Ctrl2cap [1]

Thought they really ought to just let you do this out of the box already. macOS lets you map modifier keys to other functions just in the regular old system settings.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctr...

[TylerE]

It was, then as usual IBM mucked it up. The only thing worse might be the Amiga layout… letter width capslock to the left of A, and then a 1.25 width ctrl directly to the left of that.

[makeitdouble]

I did a lot of changes, so which one would have sufficed is hard to tell (in exchange I have absolutely no RSI left).

I use keyboards with extra keys so the esc key was always mapped pretty near. With IME languages an ESC+language switch shortcuts is absolutely needed anyway (at least for vim users)