Re: Backspace, Delete and other keys (MacOSX)

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> At Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:19:41 +0200 (CEST), Magnus Eriksson <magetoo%fastmail.fm@localhost 
> > wrote:
> Subject: Re: Backspace, Delete and other keys
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > Sadly I don't think it is so easy to swap the <control> and <caps  
> > > lock>
> > > keys.
> >
> > There is an example in the man page to do just that:
> >
> > > wsconsctl -w encoding=us.swapctrlcaps
> >
> > I just tried it and it even worked.  :-)
>
> Awesome!  Thanks!  I should read the manuals more often!  :-)
>
> (now if only Mac OS X had something similar -- but first I have to  
> get a
> better keyboard than this tiny laptop keyboard turned wireless  
> "desktop"
> keyboard)

I don't know about the base stuff in MacOSX, but there is tools like  
Ukelele and KeyRemap4MacBook (poorly chosen name btw, since it works  
with all kinds of Macs)

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/

HTH,
/P