atom-swap-command-control

Swaps Command and Control keys. It is usesful when you have to move back and forth between MacOS and Linux
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Atom Command/Ctrl swapper

Remaps Command key to Control and vice versa.

Why

I have to move back and forth between Linxu and MacOS. It's almost impossible to have the perfect key binding on MacOS. Yet, I like to make MacOS to behave like Linux rather than the opposite. So there two solutions:

Swap Command and Ctrl at OS Level

It's easily possible in MacOS to swap Command and Ctrl but I can't select default XWin keybinding for my IntelliJ and the MacOS one is so different.

Key defaults and define shortcuts

It's possible to define shortcuts for general operations like Copy/Paste/... on Mac and map them to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, ...

Then I can use Default XWin keybinding on IntelliJ but then Atom is not happy! Atom has different default key bindings base on the operating system which is running on. It doesn't make sense to define all Atom shortcuts and replace Command with Ctrl.

So I created this package!

How to use

Install the package

apm install atom-swap-command-ctrl

Toggle the package by either:

  • Cmd-Shift-P and then Atom Swap Command Control: Toggle
  • Navigate to menu choose Packages -> Swap Command/Ctrl -> Toggle

Toggle again to go back to normal mode (turns of the swapper).