| g_LastCtrlKeyDownTime := 0 | |
| g_AbortSendEsc := false | |
| g_ControlRepeatDetected := false | |
| *CapsLock:: | |
| if (g_ControlRepeatDetected) | |
| { | |
| return | |
| } | |
| send,{Ctrl down} | |
| g_LastCtrlKeyDownTime := A_TickCount | |
| g_AbortSendEsc := false | |
| g_ControlRepeatDetected := true | |
| return | |
| *CapsLock Up:: | |
| send,{Ctrl up} | |
| g_ControlRepeatDetected := false | |
| if (g_AbortSendEsc) | |
| { | |
| return | |
| } | |
| current_time := A_TickCount | |
| time_elapsed := current_time - g_LastCtrlKeyDownTime | |
| if (time_elapsed <= 250) | |
| { | |
| SendInput {Esc} | |
| } | |
| return | |
| ~*^a:: | |
| ~*^b:: | |
| ~*^c:: | |
| ~*^d:: | |
| ~*^e:: | |
| ~*^f:: | |
| ~*^g:: | |
| ~*^h:: | |
| ~*^i:: | |
| ~*^j:: | |
| ~*^k:: | |
| ~*^l:: | |
| ~*^m:: | |
| ~*^n:: | |
| ~*^o:: | |
| ~*^p:: | |
| ~*^q:: | |
| ~*^r:: | |
| ~*^s:: | |
| ~*^t:: | |
| ~*^u:: | |
| ~*^v:: | |
| ~*^w:: | |
| ~*^x:: | |
| ~*^y:: | |
| ~*^z:: | |
| ~*^1:: | |
| ~*^2:: | |
| ~*^3:: | |
| ~*^4:: | |
| ~*^5:: | |
| ~*^6:: | |
| ~*^7:: | |
| ~*^8:: | |
| ~*^9:: | |
| ~*^0:: | |
| ~*^Space:: | |
| ~*^Backspace:: | |
| ~*^Delete:: | |
| ~*^Insert:: | |
| ~*^Home:: | |
| ~*^End:: | |
| ~*^PgUp:: | |
| ~*^PgDn:: | |
| ~*^Tab:: | |
| ~*^Return:: | |
| ~*^,:: | |
| ~*^.:: | |
| ~*^/:: | |
| ~*^;:: | |
| ~*^':: | |
| ~*^[:: | |
| ~*^]:: | |
| ~*^\:: | |
| ~*^-:: | |
| ~*^=:: | |
| ~*^`:: | |
| ~*^F1:: | |
| ~*^F2:: | |
| ~*^F3:: | |
| ~*^F4:: | |
| ~*^F5:: | |
| ~*^F6:: | |
| ~*^F7:: | |
| ~*^F8:: | |
| ~*^F9:: | |
| ~*^F10:: | |
| ~*^F11:: | |
| ~*^F12:: | |
| g_AbortSendEsc := true | |
| return |
The conciser one doesn't handle pressing Shift before the new Control (on Caps Lock) in combination with a character, i.e. Shift+Ctrl+T doesn't reopen tabs but Ctrl+Shift+T does.
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@jooize, great to know. I typically use Vimium so I've got single key shortcuts to open a new tab and navigate, but since I just got around to putting this on another one of my machines I'm definitely going to give the more robust version a shot.
I forked and added the remaining keys here.
I use eclipse with a vim plugin so stuff like <ctrl-1> and <ctrl-f7> were sending extra <esc>'s.
Would make it a pull request but I guess you can't do that on gists...
@randy909 Oh cool, thanks. I've copied your extra settings into my version. (Hope you don't have any objections!)
In AHK, all hotkey subroutine labels fall-thru and execute code until the next return statement
so, instead of repeating
~*^a::
g_AbortSendEsc := true
return
~*^b::
g_AbortSendEsc := true
return
;// etc
you could just do:
~*^a::
~*^b::
~*^c:: ;// etc
g_AbortSendEsc := true
return
Forked and implemented mmikeww subroutine optimization. Thank you so much for awesome script and intelligent comments.
https://gist.github.com/nocaoper/b872f97cda29bd8f0f2617606abd9fe4
Differences:
- Shift + capsLock : enables caps lock
- Removed the timing
on problem simply right click on autohotkey icon and select reload script
@mmikeww Thanks for the tip! I've updated the gist accordingly.
Here's my version, working in AHK 1.1.29.00, which is based on the more concise approach (i.e. my main goal was to avoid the big list of keys) but doesn't have the Shift+Ctrl ordering issue of the one cited above.
Thanks for these, but unfortunately in my experience these scripts sometimes swallow inputs or get stuck. In addition, when CapsLock is pressed and held down a Ctrl KEYDOWN event is leaked, resulting in unexpected behavior in certain applications (e.g. games).
To anyone reading this in 2018+, I've written a lightweight c utility to rebind CapsLock to Ctrl/Esc (or any key to any other two keys) that can be found here. Have fun!
Script works well for me. I added and A_PriorKey=="CapsLock" into the condition on line 27. That way it doesn't act like Ctrl and Escape when I press and release the entire key combination really quickly.
thank you for this!
I did a similar approach to replace the key tab by caps lock without breaking any combination, adding double tab trigger to switch windows in metro context under Windows 8 but it's mandatory, can be commented out.
https://github.com/acccounttest/Sublime-Tab-for-SublimeText-Metro-and-Windows
Fenwar's version, posted above (May 2018) is beautiful code. I like it because it doesn't hook every key on the keyboard. Give it a look.
https://gist.github.com/Rccustevens/e972cb21869b81ba0b5400991de5cd85
Differences:
- Add a rule that maps LCtrl to CapsLock.
I found this on that same page which appears to do this MUCH more concisely.
; Author: fwompner gmail com
InstallKeybdHook
SetCapsLockState, alwaysoff
Capslock::
Send {LControl Down}
KeyWait, CapsLock
Send {LControl Up}
if ( A_PriorKey = "CapsLock" )
{
Send {Esc}
}
return