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Y'all don't map the Caps Lock to a secondary backspace? Do you never make mistakes? Do you have long fingers that can reach the original backspace without taking your hands off the home row? What do you do ?

Foe me, having a backspace in place of the CapsLocks is absolutely irreplaceable

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Heh, that's actually a pretty cool idea.

But to answer your question, yep, long fingers: I can keep my forefinger on the F key while hitting Backspace with my pinky, and it's not that much of a stretch.

I use right thumb Command and H as backspace and G as forward delete, better than a pinky Caps lock, especially for repetition

  Caps+f = Backspace
  Caps+d = Delete

That would be a good way to strengthen my pinkie, I would also do it the other way around, d to backspace (move the cursor left), f to delete(move the cursor right)

I have Escape there.

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