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ControlEscape.spoon
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jasonrudolph / ControlEscape.spoon

ControlEscape.spoon

⌨ Supercharge your Control key: Tap it for Escape. Hold it for Control.

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
168GitHub stars
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What it is

⌨ Supercharge your Control key: Tap it for Escape. Hold it for Control.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-06-28 17:41:01 UTC to 2022-04-25 00:01:50 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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One better: I have my caps-lock key mapped to control, then use the ControlEscape "spoon"[1] for Hammerspoon[2] to allow it to also be an ESC key. The insight is that "control" is held, but "esc" is momentary, allowing these functions to be overlaid. It works great, nary a hiccup. Way beyond "fixing" the Touch Bar's lack of ESC, this is far and away my preferred usage now. [1] https://github.com/jasonrudolph/ControlEscape.spoon – a plugin (aka "spoon") for Hammerspoon. [2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/ – a fantastic UI event scripting and customization tool for macOS
In Apple expected to adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro

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