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I see some comments of remapping the caps lock into ctrl. Not much benefit IMO. I'd recommend to trying out backspace instead.

Why? It removes the need to move your right hand off the mouse if you need to delete anything.

For example: double click a word and backspace with left hand. Especially handy for programming. Definitely one i can't live without now.

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And statistically, backspace is the second most used key (after the spacebar). I don’t understand why people remap caps-lock to control when it’s much closer to the hand than backspace and it’s much, MUCH less frequently used.

because position of ctrl on Apple keyboards are in much weirdo position than Backspace that remap caps-lock to ctrl is less painful ?

My main machine is a Macbook Pro and I find the control key to be in a fine position. Just curl the pinky down two rows. Backspace is much farther away.

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