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Why would anyone need a capslock?

Elsewhere in the comments, someone said "I want dedicated keys for arrows / function keys, I use these frequently enough that I don't want to hold a modifier".

Some programming languages type constants in UPPER_SNAKE_CASE. -- The same rationale applies: it's easy to understand why someone would prefer to avoid having to hold a modifier key for that. -- I quite like Caps Word as an improvement on CapsLock https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_caps_word

Though, I'd agree that CapsLock isn't important enough to put where it is on a traditional keyboard. (Nor does the spacebar need to be 6 keys wide..).

Besides the better caps word (by the way, you can have it in software in Win/Linux apps like https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#c...) you can also toggle capslock with e.g. a double tap while having on-hold functionality to the more useful Control, so you still wouldn't need to hold any modifier key

To rebind it to Escape of course. :D Works wonders if you're using vim or vim mode somewhere.

BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET

First time I have ever used caps-lock for it's intended purpose. It's surprisingly liberating. I RECOMMEND GIVING IT A GO, IT'S LIKE THERAPY. Maybe we should go in the opposite direction and add even more dedicated keys for all forms of cringe-mode typing - leetspeak, texting, emoji-poisoned, valley-girl, German etc.

GPT powered politeness toggle maybe?

I remap 'both shift keys' to toggle CAPSLOCK.

I remapped my caps lock as a modifier to let me use my central row keys as arrow keys, also stuff like caps look + space bar = return, caps lock + Z = delete and so on. It's quite handy.

I largely use it to switch layers, eg. caps + hjkl turns into arrow keys

I write a lot of ${BASH}

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