Caps lock master race, reporting in. It's amazing how well-suited Caps lock is to act as the Ctrl key. Go through the pain of remapping for a day, feel great using your new, anatomic Ctrl for the rest of your life.

Seriously, do it now. In two days, you'll thank me.

Inspired by the Search key in ChromeOS, I've been mapping Caps-A to "Quick Open File…" and Caps-S to "Command Palette…" in Sublime for years. It's wickedly convenient.

As a heavy emacs user, this was one of the best things I ever did. I used to think the term "emacs pinky" was a joke, but it is really not.

And anyway, I cannot remember needing CapsLock even a single time, but I do remember hitting it by accident many times, so I do not really miss it.

It's a start, but I'm much happier having moved it to under my thumb.

A variation: Caps-Lock swapped with Backspace. This has worked well for me.

That'd be rubout on a Symbolics keyboard isn't it?

Aye :)

My favorite: map caps-lock to left mouse click.