# Do you remap Caps Lock?

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377>\
**Category:** General Dev Chat\
**Tags:** dev-environments, keyboards, polls\
**Created:** [17 March 2025 03:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377 "2025-03-17T03:20:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2025 03:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/1 "2025-03-17T03:20:30Z")

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Curious whether you remap your Caps Lock.

# Do you remap your Caps Lock key?

_Poll ([view on site](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/1))_

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

 ![Screenshot 2025-03-17 at 03.07.46](https://forum.devtalk.com/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0da3a89c363057e4ed6439e2b5615191e4cd7c23.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Eiji](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/eiji/32/6784_2.png) [@Eiji](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/Eiji)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2025 18:47 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/2 "2025-03-17T18:47:43Z")

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I have only one question: `Why?` 😂

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2025 20:35 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/3 "2025-03-17T20:35:03Z")

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

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**Author:** ![mindriot](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/mindriot/32/6660_2.png) [@mindriot](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/mindriot)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2025 14:19 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/4 "2025-03-22T14:19:23Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![ozornin](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/ozornin/32/7248_2.png) [@ozornin](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/ozornin)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2025 17:15 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/5 "2025-03-23T17:15:04Z")

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

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**Author:** ![toon159](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/toon159/32/7091_2.png) [@toon159](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/toon159)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2025 07:40 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/6 "2025-03-25T07:40:48Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [31 March 2025 01:56 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/do-you-remap-caps-lock/191377/7 "2025-03-31T01:56:50Z")

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> [@ozornin](#):
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> “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 🙃