Friday, January 19, 2018

Remap Right Shift To Up Arrow OSX

The up arrow on the new 2017 Macbook pros are stupid small and very difficult to accurately hit. This can be extremely annoying when in a terminal and you need to hit "up" several times to go through your history.

Unfortunately there is no builtin way to modify the right shift key and map it to arbitrary keys. Fortunately, however, there is an app call "Karabiner" that grants you this functionality at an OS level. Meaning, it's not application specific.

The process is incredibly simple:

  1. Download Karabiner
  2. Go to the "Simple Modifications" tab
  3. Click "Add Item"
  4. From Key: right_shift, To Key: up_arrow as seen below:

Enjoy!

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