However, as someone with more than a passing interest in preventing RSI, I can see the attraction.
I haven’t taken the plunge and switched to Colemak. To move the cursor to the beginning of the text, hold down and press. Start by pressing the Delete (PC: Backspace) key to delete the white area inside the selection, then move the selection to the right 20px by holding down the Shift key and pressing the Right Arrow key twice. After experiencing the difference perhaps you’ll be more motivated to learn an alternative layout. deletes the character immediately in front of the cursor). That change alone results in a 15%-20% reduction of finger distance on QWERTY.
In fact, I got the idea of replacing caps lock with delete from the Colemak FAQ:Įven if you decide not to learn, I recommend remapping the Caps Lock key to Backspace. If your hands feel better after moving the delete key, you might want to give Colemak a try. Once you’ve entered the keycode, it should be ready. Check the box to activate the caps lock key change, and set the keycode to 51. The first option lets you reconfigure the caps lock key. Once you have Seil installed, go ahead and open it.
#MAC DELETE KEY BACKSPACE INSTALL#
Download and install the version appropriate for your Mac. This is where the freeware app Seil comes in 3. Now we need a way of re-mapping the caps lock key to delete. You’ll likely want to do this for all your keyboards in the Select Keyboard dropdown. There you can set your caps lock to No Action. Go into your System Preferences, select the Keyboard pane, and then click the button labeled Modifier Keys. Here’s how you can do it on a Mac running Yosemite. So, why not save your right pinky some strain, and replace your caps lock with a second delete key? But since none of us are perfect, you do probably use your delete key 2 a lot. Unless you like to yell at people all day 1, you probably don’t use your caps lock key much.
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