Is it worth swapping Ctrl and Caps Lock for windows users that don't use Emacs

Question

I\'ve been aware of Steve Yegge\'s advice to swap Ctrl and Caps Lock for a while now, although I don\'t use Emacs. I\'ve just tried swapping them over as an experiment and I

Answer 1

I ended up taking the advice in Zach's answer, but I also made Caps Lock behave as an ESC key if it was held and released on it's own using the AutoHotKey script in this gist: CapsLockCtrlEscape.ahk

I also bound Ctrl+Shift+Caps Lock to Caps Lock for the rare occasions when I might need it using this AutoHotKey script:

#IfWinActive
   ^+Capslock::Capslock ; make CTRL+SHIFT+Caps-Lock the Caps Lock toggle
return