If you look at the Keyboard that Bill Joy developed vi on, the esc keybinding actually makes sense, and the caplocks keybinding is basically what he used. http

If you look at the Keyboard that Bill Joy developed vi on, the esc keybinding actually makes sense, and the caplocks keybinding is basically what he used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#/media/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#/media/File:KB_Terminal_ADM... I guess it'd be more like tab, but whatever.