Capslock as escape key

[SylEleuth]

I've mapped escape key to capslock on my system. When I open vomnibar and want to leave it, capslock (as esc key) is not working. I heave to reach actual esc key. Is it possible to do something with that?

[gdh1995]

`mapkey` can map any other keys (added: except lock keys like CapsLock/Fn) to escape in Vimium C. But how do you map a real capslock key to escape? I've done so using AutoHotKey, and my CapsLock can exit Vomnibar as expected.

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[gdh1995]

Sorry, the comment before made a mistake: actually CapsLock is always skipped by Vimium C (no keys can mean it).

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This may be related to how you map CapsLock. I guess you do such mapping in another browser extension. Am I right?

[aaronclimbs]

I've used uncap to remap ESC to CapsLock and I see the same issue. Pressing CapsLock works to exit to normal mode from viewing all links mode, but not to exit the vomnibar. Is there a difference in how the key listener works in these two instances?

[gdh1995]

@aaronclimbs What will Vomnibar of Vimium C do, if you enable the advanced option Ignore keyboard layout ? Up to now Vomnibar works just like this is forced to be enabled.

And could you do a test and press CapsLock on http://gdh1995.cn/vimium-c/keyboard-test.html , when your uncap is running ? The page will report the detailed key event information and it can help debugging a lot.

[gdh1995]

Hello, I've reproduced this issue using uncap, so please try this version:
vimium_c-1.80.3-chrome-0ecf497.zip; vimium_c-1.80.3-firefox-0ecf497.zip.

• unzip the files into an empty folder
• if on Chrome, open chrome://extensions/ and enable the "developer mode"
• if on Firefox, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox manually
• click the "load extension" button and select the extension folder or manifest.json

[aaronclimbs]

Works great. Thanks for the quick fix.