My colleague Niklas nagged me for not having disabled the caps lock key on my MacBook Pro. I was a bit disoriented at first but coming to think of it, I haven’t used the caps lock key since I got the MBP back in April.
This made me think about which keys I actually use. Being a recent VIM convert I wonder if Apple’s designers hate VIM. Efficient editing in VIM require you to use the escape key a lot. On the MBP the escape key is one of the smallest keys on the keyboard for some reason.
Am I whining about superfluous things? Maybe so. Maybe I should just shut up and remap my caps lock key to escape.
Give me larger keys!
The ideal VIM keyboard should have a large escape key. The colon is used a lot too. Maybe it could look something like this:
