Try to hit your CAPS Lock button as if it’s a mistake and see what happens. Mine is reading my mind.
The difference between unintentional hit and an intentional one is very slight, but it knows :)
Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂
I use caps lock to switch my keyboard between Arabic and English, this little delay helps me differentiate between switching languages and actually turning on caps lock
That’s crazy… Do they have like a simple mechanism to detect this like if < .001ms?
in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day
Eh, I end up going to caps for short stints when programming and sometimes it misses if I’m going too fast so I’m not the biggest fan.
Same with the power button.
Yep, the key has a delay (and AFAIK it’s software delay, i.e. there’s a script that lets you turn off the delay).
My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I’m used to it I love it.
I think the 2009 era Mac usb keyboard also does this
This thread has made me realize I never use caps lock. Ive been using macOS for 14 years and didn’t know about this delay 😂
Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn’t?
It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership
This was always the case. Already on the wired Mac keyboard and the Magic Keyboard too. This is not Mac book specific. But a nice feature.
Yo what, I thought it mine was just slightly broken
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
I’m sure the simple answer is data or code input, but I like to imagine you’re either really angry or a hobbyist Amazon reviewer and that’s why caps lock is dear to you. Or maybe a twitter club promoter?
For me, I just developed the bad habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key. So when I’m typing, I always use the caps lock key to capitalize the first letter of a sentence instead of holding shift down. At this point it’s so ingrained in me I can’t really get myself out of the habit. Some other user posted a script that eliminates the delay and it’s a breath of fresh air
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
Yes it is like that by default. I’ve found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I’ve found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.
I just remapped my caps to escape
mines been on forward delete for years and years
Holy shit thank you for this. The caps lock delay has been the one thing that has continually pissed me off as a lifelong Windows user who switched to Mac 3 years ago.
I have developed the terrible habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key when I’m trying to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Definitely not efficient but I can be bothered to undo a habit that I’ve had for over a decade. This is going to save me so much frustration