For the last couple of weeks, I have been integrating Vim and a complementary set of tools into my development toolkit. I am firmly on board with what the pragmatic programmers say:
"Learn a good editor, and learn it well!!"
I am thoroughly impressed with Vim, Viemu etc. Last week I was recommended a registry hack that would allow my Caps Lock key to have the same behaviour as the ESC key. This results in a much smoother experience when using Vim.
So far, I am loving the reg hack and much prefer the need to not have to move my hand to hit the ESC key. Here is the text of the reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,01,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybCodes]
"00000804"="ch"
"00000408"="gk"
"00010408"="gk"
"00020408"="gk"
"00050408"="gk"
"0001041f"="tr"
"0000041f"="tr"
"00000423"="us"
"00000402"="bg"
"00000419"="ru"
"00010419"="ru"
"00000c1a"="us"
"00010c1a"="us"
"00000422"="us"
"00010402"="us"
"00020402"="bg"
"00030402"="bg"
"00020422"="us"
"00000412"="ko"
"00000425"="et"
"00000426"="us"
"00010426"="us"
"00000427"="us"
"00000411"="jp"
"00000404"="ch"
"0000041C"="us"
"0000041a"="yu"
"00000424"="yu"
"00000405"="cz"
"00010405"="cz"
"0000040e"="hu"
"0001040e"="hu"
"00000415"="pl"
"00010415"="pl"
"00000418"="ro"
"00010418"="ro"
"00020418"="ro"
"0000041b"="sl"
"0001041b"="sl"
"00000442"="tk"
"00000813"="be"
"0000080c"="be"
"00001009"="us"
"00000c0c"="cf"
"00010c0c"="cf"
"00000406"="dk"
"00000413"="nl"
"0000040b"="su"
"0000040c"="fr"
"00000407"="gr"
"00010407"="gr"
"0000040f"="is"
"00001809"="us"
"00000410"="it"
"00010410"="it"
"0000080a"="la"
"00000414"="no"
"00000816"="po"
"00000416"="br"
"0000040a"="sp"
"0001040a"="sp"
"0000041d"="sv"
"0000100c"="sf"
"00000807"="sg"
"00000809"="uk"
"00010409"="dv"
"00030409"="usl"
"00040409"="usr"
"00020409"="us"
"00000409"="us"
"00000452"="uk"
"0000046e"="sf"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybIDs]
"00010408"="220"
"00020408"="319"
"0001041f"="440"
"0000041f"="179"
"00010415"="214"
"00000442"="440"
"00000410"="141"
"00010410"="142"
Create a reg file and copy the contents into it, then merge the file into your registry. Make sure that you want to not have normal use of your caps lock key.
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