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> I could not possibly disagree with this quote more. Ctrl+[ is WAY more uncomfortable than using the Escape key. Did you try it with one hand or two. I do it

by u801e 10y ago

> I could not possibly disagree with this quote more. Ctrl+[ is WAY more uncomfortable than using the Escape key. Did you try it with one hand or two. I do it by using my left pinky on the ctrl key and my right pinky on the [ key. In general, I've always tried to stick with the touch typing convention where you use the modifier key on the opposite side of the keyboard relative to the key you press. For example, I will always press the left shift key for capitalizing I and the right shift key to capitalize A (and similarly with the alt or ctrl keys). It's more ergonomic, IMO (and also the reason I dislike keyboards that are missing modifier keys on one side of the keyboard).

nocman 10y ago
"Did you try it with one hand or two." ^^ was this supposed to be a joke? (I laughed at first when I thought you meant stretching the left hand between the left CTRL key and the [ :-D ). I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand, but I would have never even have thought to do that (and I don't know that I ever use the right CTRL key anyway). Outside of the CTRL keys, I touch type pretty much everything normally, with very few exceptions (like using my ring finger on Escape). I find moving my right pinky to the right CTRL key to be very uncomfortable, so I just always use the left CTRL key.
- u801e 10y ago
  > I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand That's exactly what I was thinking of. Years ago, I used to press key combinations like ctrl-c, ctrl-x by moving my left hand away from the home row and using my pinky on the ctrl key and my index finger on the c or x key. I thought you may have been doing something like taking your right hand off the home row and pressing the key combination with your thumb and index finger. But I do find that using the modifier key on the opposite side of the keyboard requires less contortion for a given key combination (e.g., the shift-v or ctrl-v combinations for linewise or blockwise visual mode).

by u801e 10y ago

nocman 10y ago

"Did you try it with one hand or two." ^^ was this supposed to be a joke? (I laughed at first when I thought you meant stretching the left hand between the left CTRL key and the [ :-D ). I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand, but I would have never even have thought to do that (and I don't know that I ever use the right CTRL key anyway). Outside of the CTRL keys, I touch type pretty much everything normally, with very few exceptions (like using my ring finger on Escape). I find moving my right pinky to the right CTRL key to be very uncomfortable, so I just always use the left CTRL key.

u801e 10y ago
> I guess I could see someone trying to type it one-handed with their right hand That's exactly what I was thinking of. Years ago, I used to press key combinations like ctrl-c, ctrl-x by moving my left hand away from the home row and using my pinky on the ctrl key and my index finger on the c or x key. I thought you may have been doing something like taking your right hand off the home row and pressing the key combination with your thumb and index finger. But I do find that using the modifier key on the opposite side of the keyboard requires less contortion for a given key combination (e.g., the shift-v or ctrl-v combinations for linewise or blockwise visual mode).