Remap Your Caps Lock As Backspace (michaeljaylissner.com)

I've been using Caps Lock as Escape for an easy to access escape in vim. I am so used to this now that it is one of the first things I have to change when setting up a machine before I go crazy.

I use my caps lock key as a right arrow key. Reaching for escape in Vim doesn't really bother me, and I find it surprisingly useful pretty much any time I'm typing.

I use AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) to remap it on Windows, and xmodmap/xset under X on Linux. If anyone has suggestions for doing this easily under OS X I'd love to hear them.

The AutoHotkey script is this: SetCapsLockState, ALwaysOff CapsLock::Right

And the xmodmap/xset commands are basically the same as those mentioned in the article for remapping backspace: xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock" xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Right" xset r 66

For Vim I use tab as esc, and s-tab as tab. Auto-indent turned on.

Caps as right arrow is an interesting idea.

Basically, caps lock is silly.

It's pretty common for emacs users to remap caps lock to the control key. In fact, it's the first tip in Steve Yegge's Effective Emacs essay.

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs