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mazz0

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Mar 23, 2011
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So there’s a key up on the top left: ±/§. I have never used this in my life, and it would make far more sense to use this as an Escape key. Any way to do that?

I’ve found a setting for the modifier keys (eg map Command to Option), and you can set one of those to be Escape, but I don’t want to lose any of those. Maybe I could do without Globe, but there’s no software replacement for this (I thought the software keyboard bar might gain a Globe button if no hardware key was bound to it, but nope, which seems like a silly oversight to me).

If changing the mapping isn’t possible (as I suspect) is there any way to trigger a macro (I forget what Apple calls them, they put out an app to make them) from a keyboard command?

Gotta say, I love this typing experience. I really like the noise!
 
I would like to know this as well. I have a tilde/accent button there that i never use, so that makes sense as an Esc key. So far I don’t see the option of rebinding it.
 
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