Earlier versions on Capslock

Mac V2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archived, not maintained

Mac V2 was written for Karabiner-Elements on macOS 10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra and 10.13 High Sierra, the systems its README listed. It was replaced by Mac V3 in 2021 and has not been checked against current macOS or Karabiner-Elements.

Mac V2 was the first Capslock edition for Karabiner-Elements, the rewrite of Karabiner that macOS Sierra required. It is a set of ten complex-modification rules. A tap on Caps Lock sends Escape. Holding it turns it into Hyper (✱): Karabiner-Elements holds the four right-hand modifiers, ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ ⌘, together, so Hyper still combines with the left-hand ones and most apps accept it.

Mac V1

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archived, not maintained

Mac V1 ran on the original Karabiner together with Seil, on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and 10.11 El Capitan. The original Karabiner does not run on macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, so V1 cannot run on any current Mac. It was replaced by Mac V2, and the maintained edition today is Mac V3.

Mac V1 was the first Capslock edition for the Mac. It needed two tools. Seil changed the key code that Caps Lock sends to 80, the code of F19. Karabiner then read V1's private.xml, which turned that key into Hyper (✱) while held and defined each group of shortcuts as a separate item to switch on in Karabiner's preferences.

Windows

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archived, not maintained

The Windows version is an AutoHotkey script from 2013–2015. The Mac V2 README listed Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 as its systems. Neither the script nor the prebuilt executable is tested on current Windows.

Capslock began on Windows in 2013, two years before the first Mac version. The script turns Caps Lock, which it calls the "useless key", into a function key like Ctrl and Alt by combining it with almost every other key on the keyboard. Caps Lock itself is kept off, and its old job moves to Caps Lock + `.