Map superfluous function keys to something useful in OS X?

tripitaka

tripitaka

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Is there a way I can map the F16-F19 keys on my keyboard to something useful on OS X?
Ideally I'd like to be able to type a '#' with one of them.
Not having a dedicated hash key on a machine I'm using for development isn't ideal - I could probably pick about 10 other keys that I'd rather do without :)
 
One key that bugs me in macs is the ±/§ under escape. The equivalent ascii code of that key makes such a mess in standard terminal applications and remote sessions when you hit it instead of esc (which, for all the usefulness of it in shell, vi etc, is the smallest key on the entire keyboard). Not once, in my life, not in a single instance in my professional life, gaming, typing, coding or internet surfing, have I found use for that idiotic ±/§ key. I hate it with passion. Would love to have it remapped. Preferably to a random keyboard 5 rooms away.

And I agree with original poster. #, being what - a third most important non latin or punctuation character in unix, after @ and &, didn't even make it into secondary mapping. It's on the keyboard as a flipping alternative language character - alt-£, like you were going for ż or ł. But a cretinous ± gets its own dedicated key!
 
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