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Assuming that you've not remapped caps lock already to something else like control.

You can have the best of both worlds with Karabiner. After remapping caps lock to Control, you can add a Karabiner setting to send Escape when you tap Left Control. Holding caps lock in combination with another key will still act as ctrl-<key>

I've remaped caps lock to control. I use vi and press caps-[ to achieve my escape to command mode.

why not something like jj or jk?

inoremap jj <Esc>

also, mapping the leader to spacebar is great

mapleader=" "

and finally

nnoremap Q @@

map the Q key to replay the last macro you used... much nicer than using @r or @g or whatever every time you want to replay the macro.

I tried mapping jj to esc, but even after a few days I couldn't really get used to it. Always drove me crazy when it would switch modes when I just intended to type 'jj' as a variable name in loops. At least it got me to use more meaningful names!

Your latter suggestions are brilliant, I'm going to steal them right away.

You could map it to both 'jk' and 'kj' and then you don't have to worry about the order of the keypress, just press both 'j' and 'k' together.

I like that suggestion. Thank you!

If you like the space bar leader you might want to try spacevim or something like that. (I switched to spacemacs and I love it... Vim is a great style of editing but the plugins are bad and feel broken and half assed. Spacemacs fixes that by combing the best of vim with the best of Emacs. That feels dirty to type but it's true.)

Try mapping kj instead of jj. I use jj and jk often enough (quaternions, don't you know) but kj is a really obscure sequence.

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