Do you remap Caps Lock?

[AstonJ]

Curious whether you remap your Caps Lock.

Do you remap your Caps Lock key?

• No - I keep it as Caps Lock
• Yes - to nothing/no action
• Yes - to Control
• Yes - to Option
• Yes - to Command
• Yes - to Globe
• Yes - to Escape
• Yes - to Back Space
• Yes - to FN
• Yes - to something else (please say in thread!)

I have no idea what Globe is btw, just seen it in the macOS options:

[Eiji]

I have only one question: Why?

[AstonJ]

Mostly Vim users (CTRL is used a lot) or those who hate CL being hit by accident!

[mindriot]

Normal caps lock location for me is remapped to Tab (via keyboard firmware), usually remap Tab to Esc. I use tab/shift tab all the time for moving text around so it is less reach for my pinky, I rarely use caps lock so I keep it on a layer instead of a high value location.

If I recall correctly the globe key brings up the emoji and symbols picker.

[ozornin]

“Globe” is changing input sources, by the way
For instance, keyboard layouts

[toon159]

My Caps Lock was for changing input sources, after reading this post, I moved it to the globe key and remapped Caps Lock to Escape instead.

[AstonJ]

@ozornin

“Globe” is changing input sources, by the way
For instance, keyboard layouts

I realised why I didn’t recognise the icon as out of all the keyboards I have here, only my most recent one has the globe icon! All the others just have ‘fn’. Funny thing is I use it all the time… for emojis