Recommended keyboard remapping for easier escape key?

[ChocolateLoverRaj]

I am new to Vim. I've been using Vscode for a long time and I want to use Vscode with Vim (with this extension). Right now pressing the escape key on the keyboard is too annoying. Some people swap their escape and capslock key, and I'm thinking that I should do something similar.

I use a Chromebook (which has no Fn key (the ctrl key is just wider), the super key is where the capslock key usually is, and there is no windows key (the alt key is just wider). I also use a laptop with a windows keyboard. I use keyd on both of them, so making changes to the keyboard mappings should be no issue. But my concern is that if I remap the super key on my Chromebook to escape, then I won't have a super key. Should I remap escape to super then? Should I make it so that the key in the position of capslock is Esc if you tap it and Ctrl if you hold it? I feel like there are so many options to configure this and I don't know what would be most useful.

[itxashancode]

I'd go with Esc if tap, Ctrl if hold on the capslock position. That's the one I use and it's the best balance - you get escape instantly when you need it, and you still have ctrl for combos like Ctrl+C/V without moving your hands. I've tried swapping capslock and escape, but holding escape for Ctrl combos is awkward and you lose the modifier entirely.

On Linux/WSL you can do it with xcape or interception tools. On Chromebook with keyd, you'd map capslock to Ctrl, then use keyd's dual-role config to make it emit Esc on tap. That way you don't lose the super key on your Chromebook - it stays where it is, and you get a better escape key everywhere.

If you want something even simpler and you rarely use capslock, just swap capslock and escape. But if you do any copy/paste or other Ctrl+ combos in Vim, the dual-role is worth the tiny config effort.