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Comment by merlincorey | Hacker News Reader

Regarding emacs pinky, many people find remapping CAPSLOCK to CONTROL helps quite a bit. Here is one popular xmodmapping:

  remove lock = Caps_Lock
  remove Control = Control_L
  keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
  add lock = Caps_Lock
  add Control = Control_L

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CapsLock to Escape is something I find useful with Vim. A lot of people advocate mapping it to Ctrl then using Ctrl-c or Ctrl-], but It's better to just skip the middleman I think.

You can also map it to something like 'jj'. I don't use vim that much now but I found that more ergonomic than any of the special keys.

If you're using X, then xcape can map both Esc and Ctrl to Capslock. https://github.com/alols/xcape

Now that is clever. Thanks for this.

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