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Comment by narimiran | Hacker News Reader

> Have you tried remapping esc to capslock? (Or ctrl to capslock and esc to ctrl)

¿Why not both?

I have (on Linux, not on Mac, but it shouldn't matter):

* "caps lock" + key = Ctrl+key

* "caps lock" (release) = Esc

It works like charm and I can definitely recommend it.

How do you map it to do that?

I have mine mapped to:

* caps (no other key) => esc * caps + home row => corresponding symbol key

Extremely nice for programming when '(' and ')' are on 'L' and ';' keys - directly under my fingers.

I guess there are other ways and tools, I use this:

1. to put Ctrl on CapsLock:

    setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier

2. to have "dual" CL as described above:

    xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'

So simple, I wish I had thought about it before. Thanks.