From cb898f2decdf92ff99b8202ada7f98a3a40b4bd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marty Oehme <marty.oehme@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:38:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Make capslock behave as control/escape key

Behaves as control when used in conjunction with other keys.
Behaves as escape when used alone. When accidentally pressed
keep long pressing (>500ms) and it will pretend to not have
been pressed.
---
 .config/zsh/5-caps-to-control | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .config/zsh/5-caps-to-control

diff --git a/.config/zsh/5-caps-to-control b/.config/zsh/5-caps-to-control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4d5d6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/zsh/5-caps-to-control
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Remaps Capslock key to control.
+# (only works for x environment - I haven't needed it for non-x yet)
+setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
+
+# Makes Capslock behave as escape - when ONLY capslock is pressed and released
+# this only works when we already substitute a ctrl for caps with the lines above,
+# otherwise control itself will act as escape.
+# Needs xcape package installed. https://github.com/alols/xcape
+xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'