Use Caps lock as Backspace is a very good idea, but I need the FUNCTIONALITY of caps lock: right win is a good idea, but I usually use Linux...

Install a ,,patch''... It is not too elegant. Why isn't built-in? (Sorry my english!) It enough me, if I can use a shortcut (with AltGr) to Caps Lock.

I'm a programmer, I must write some things with uppercase. I usually use caps lock.

It shouldn't matter much whether you use Linux or Mac or whatever - there's usually a key two places right of the space bar (Mac has the right-hand Option key there I believe) that most users don't press much. Some may be used to it though, which may be a part of the reason why Shai didn't want to make it a default remapping.

Another reason may be the CapsOff competition, actually. That CapsOFF site is pretty much totally against the very idea of a CapsLock and probably wouldn't quite warm up to the idea of merely moving the key downtown. Silly, I know, but maybe true.

That's right. I think something wholly obsolete like scroll lock should be mapped to caps lock. Oh, but do please correct me if that's still in use.

Shift and caps lock is bad, because you often press these together without noticing, and then you'd activate caps lock. Also, it's important that it can be consistently implemented accross platforms.

There is no Scroll Lock on my keyboard.   I have tried using sticky keys on my Mac but as my typing as gotten better, the trade offs seem less and less worth it.

Colemak was designed before the CapsOff campaign and competition, so it wasn't because of that.
Why I decided to keep the old backspace in place as well is explained in this thread .

REGEDIT4 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout] 
; The next line maps RWin <- CapsLock <- BackSpace
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,0e,00,3a,00,3a,00,5c,e0,00,00,00,00
; The next line remaps only CapsLock <- BackSpace
;"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,0e,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
; The next line removes all scancode remappings
;"Scancode Map"=-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=-

; Numbers are LittleEndian (0x12345678 -> 78,56,34,12)
; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
; Bytes          Meaning
; ---------------------------------------------------------------------
; 00 00 00 00    Version info (usually zero)
; 00 00 00 00    Flags (usually zero)
; 03 00 00 00    # of entries (# of mappings +1 for the terminator)
; 0e 00 3a 00    The CapsLock(3a) key now sends a BackSpace(0e) scancode
; 3a 00 5c e0    The RWin(e05c)   key now sends a CapsLock(3a)  scancode
; 00 00 00 00    Null terminator (always zero)

Uncomment the line you want to use, save this as a .reg file and double-click to merge it. That's all, folks!

If you want the changes on a by-user basis, I think you use the CURRENT_USER part instead of LOCAL_MACHINE.

I really like using the right-hand Win key (scancode #e05c) as a CapsLock, myself, since it's redundant and I never used it really. If you want to tweak your setup to using another key, replace "5c,e0" with a LittleEndian hex representation of the key you'd like. NumLock sounds odd, but if you want to use, say, ScrollLock then that has a scancode of #0046 so accordingly "5c,e0" becomes "46,00". Ask if you need help.

Ummm, yes, that's what I meant. When I press the little flag key to the right of the AltGr, the CapsLock light goes on and my keyboard starts "shouting". That's what my script up there does, because that's what I prefer.

I don't use a laptop (much) so I never thought of that. They usually have only the Alt(Gr) and Ctrl keys to the right of the space bar. Right. Myself, I'd probably use the right-hand Ctrl key since I don't remember using that much either. But I can imagine that won't sit well with everyone either. In case anyone wants to remap their right-hand Ctrl key, it has scan code #E01D.

(See e.g., http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2 … odes1.html for a list of scan codes. As I understand it, there are cases in which other scan code sets are used but these should work for the kind of remapping level we're using I believe.)

I think delete/backspace is a good spot for caps lock, but I can't remap caps lock using Ukelele. I have caps lock in its original position and return/enter is remapped to a delete key. Return is accessed with the tilde, or with shift-return. It was going to be just shift return, but that did some weird thing while programming, so I made tilde into return for use while programming. I never use tilde, ever. And if I do for some reason I can switch over to QWERTY.