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I wonder if this will finally give a solid, cross-platform way to make the Caps Lock key work as it should: press for escape, hold for control.

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May I suggest the absolutely awesome Extend Layer [0] instead?

Arrow keys, advanced cursor movement and modifiers chording, and more, without leaving the home row!

[0] https://dreymar.colemak.org/layers-extend.html

the easiest cross platform way is to use qmk and flash some firmware on the keyboard itself to map that. tons of software tools for this now

That's what i did. It's worked super well. Finding a keyboard i liked that worked with that was the hardest part. As it is my keyboard's brand (Keychron) had support in QMK, but the model did not. I had to hack a bit to get there, but in the end it worked.

Sad thing is that was two years ago and i've forgotten how to flash it lol.

I can't wait until something like Rust's QMK (i think RMK?) starts to work on more boards. My board having complex modes but the ease of it being written in Rust (because i love Rust) would be a dream for me.

If i could i'd write those type of Rust-QMK for both my Keyboard and Mouse. It really feels great

While that's true, QMK isn't context aware. You can't have application or OS specific mappings for instance.

Edit: typo fix

This looks like it might work on my ordinary Dell Latitude laptop, which certainly doesn't support QMK for its internal keyboard as much as I wish it did!

Yes it does but a lot more. I've personally switched to using only Keymapper even though my keyboard runs on QMK. There's a lot of features but the killer one for me is the context awareness. You can have different mappings based on the application, device or OS.

it would help to know what your tried. kanata?

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