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Map CapsLock key to ESC in Mac OS X

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Mar 15, 20263528 views
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At work on my windows machine I've used Autohotkey to remap the CapsLock key to ESC. I've gotten used to it and on my personal machines (mac) I keep hitting CapsLock out of habit when I want ESC. How do I do the mapping on the Mac? The keyboard & mouse prefpane has some basic options for the capslo…

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Fix for: Map CapsLock key to ESC in Mac OS X

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My friend pointed me to something that worked. He said to install both PCKeyboardHack and KeyRemap4MacBook. PCKeyboardHack allows for remapping capslock, while the other one seems to allow for a lot more remapping. I'm not sure if both are actually …

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