![]() ![]() Honestly, I’d lose the whole touch bar for the sake of the escape key… It’s kinda neat but I don’t really see it as very important. Why would anyone need this key! And if they really needed it wouldn’t it be best on a function combination unlike escape which is genuinely very important! It didn’t even occur to me that something as basic and important as the escape key would be missing when I bought the MacPro. The §/± key for example (which is a position where an escape key would be great) is baffling. What’s especially irritating is the Mac keyboard still has truly useless keys on it. Caps lock is also fairly important so I don’t like this work around. ![]() I’m a vim user and so the escape key is very important to me. ![]() Keyboard mapping issues has always been the bane of using a Mac, especially if you’re a developer and you need to use VMWare Fusion. If you have a Touch Bar on your Mac, did you remap the Escape key or are you satisfied with the virtual escape key? Let us know in the comments. Using an external keyboard with a hardware Escape key in the normal position of an Escape key.Using “Control [” as a key sequence for Escape may work for some Mac users (will not work on all Macs however).Remapping the ESC key to another key, like Caps Lock as detailed above.You can learn more about using the Escape key on Touch Bar Macs, and we’ve also discussed separately how to force quit with the Touch Bar, which can be another difficulty for some. For many MacBook Pro with Touch Bar users, this takes considerable adjustment, and some never quite adapt. Aside from no longer having haptic feedback of a pressable key, the indentation of the virtual Escape key, and having to re-train yourself to use a tiny touch screen can be frustrating. ![]() The Touch Bar and virtual escape key can be a real challenge for many touch typers with the MacBook Pro Touch Bar models. Escape Key Alternatives on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar The indented virtual Escape key will still work as usual, assuming the application is not unresponsive anyway. Keep in mind this has no impact on the indented virtual Escape key that appears on the Touch Bar with some applications and when you have the Touch Bar shown in the default mode. It is probably not recommended to replace the Control, Option, or Command keys, as those keys are used frequently on the Mac for many purposes, and thus would be largely inappropriate to remap for most Pro users. The Caps Lock key is arguably the most useless key of the hardware keys, so it makes a good for replacing the Escape key on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Yes that will mean relearning your deeply ingrained Escape key location in the upper left corner of the keyboard to the new location which you chose (granted the virtual escape key will still be visible sometimes depending on the application in use on the Mac, and assuming the application is not unresponsive), but it works, and it serves the purpose of having a physical hardware escape key on the Mac which can be helpful for force quitting apps and other tasks which are best served with a hardware escape key. Now you can press the Caps Lock key (or the Control, Option, or Command keys) to use as a hardware escape key. Select “Escape” from the dropdown list corresponding to the key you want to remap as a hardware Escape key then click “OK” to set the change.Choose the key you want to remap and modify to perform the Escape function: Caps Lock (our recommendation), Control, Option, or Command.Click on the “Modifier Keys” button in the lower right corner.Go to the Apple menu and choose “System Preferences” and then go to the “Keyboard” preference panel and choose the “Keyboard” tab.The only thing you need is the latest version of macOS system software, so be sure you update Mac OS first if you have not done so already. Before you get too bummed out by not having a hardware escape key on your fancy new MacBook Pro, know that the latest versions of MacOS allow you to modify a select group of other keys to become a hardware escape key instead.įor what it’s worth, this trick to modify a key to perform a hardware Escape function works not only on the newest MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but also with other Mac models without Touch Bar as well. ![]()
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