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I use vim, so esc is one of the most important keys. But I use esc in most apps very frequently. I don’t use Caps Lock at all.

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I still don't get it. We have a keyboard with an Esc key and a Caps Lock key. Why would I remove Caps Lock and use it as another Esc key?

Try pressing esc every few seconds for 8-12hrs a day like a vim developer does and you'll know.

(Single datapoint ahead.)

I edit my sources and remote configs exclusively in vim-likes since ~2004 (full time sw dev) and never experienced such issues. From my experience, typing or clicking speed requirement rarely exceeds that of thinking on your program. I hit esc often, but not too often, and it is not too far.

I’m not against caps->esc mapping in general, but for me this would have little to no value plus non-standard layout, which is minus, since I’m not office-only guy.

Inverse: question you have a big key, in the home row. That is a very valuable keyboard position.

What is a function in your programs deserve such a prominent position??

In my case as an emacs user bloq mayus, get's remaped to CTRL.

Vin users need ESC.

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