Map Caps Lock key to Escape key, or any to any key, on Windows systems. Apart from documenting how Uncap works on Windows, this README contains detailed documentation about how to remap keys on Linux and Mac as well. Map Caps Lock key to Escape key on a new Windows system with almost no effort. Just download and double-click. This is the primary reason why Uncap was written. This tool was written for users of vi/Vim editor who like to map their Caps Lock key to Escape key for convenience. Map any key to any key, multiple keys to other keys, or disable keys using command line arguments. No additional file or script is required. It is a single-file executable. It is very lightweight. The executable is only about 100 KB in size. It occupies less than 1 MB of memory and negligible CPU while running.

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  • Enable, disable or modify key mappings without having to reboot the Windows system
  • Disable key mappings easily by stopping Uncap.
  • Uncap is a single-file executable: uncap.exe
  • When Uncap is run without any arguments, it maps Caps Lock key to Escape key
  • Map any key to any key
  • It is a single-file executable.

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Linux, Mac, Windows

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C

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2022-10-12