> Whats with you guys and the ESC key? It's so far away do you actually use it?

You're joking. You realize this forum is filled with programmers and other digital creative professionals, right?

I'm old and I've been using vim for decades. Remapping caps lock on the internal keyboard would just confuse me because I use my external keyboard as much as I use the internal one, and my external keyboard has caps lock remapped to Command.

I grew up playing games like StarCraft so I have muscle memory of moving my hand to the top row for control group management. It's no big deal.

I can reach it from the starting row (ASDF) of my left hand without moving it. This might be more impactful to people with small hands.

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