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Why is everyone keep saying that Esc key is gone, OS X allows you to customize that new touch bar, you can make the Esc button to always show on the same spot y
by usaphp 10y ago
Why is everyone keep saying that Esc key is gone, OS X allows you to customize that new touch bar, you can make the Esc button to always show on the same spot you had it before...
- kabdib 10y agoFrom a tactile point, not the same. I've rage-quit keyboards because of nerfed ESC keys before, so this one won't be the first. I put a piece of double-sided sticky tape on my ESC key just to make me notice how often I hit it. When I'm editing, it's all the time. The seeming last-minute addition of a remapping feature for ESC in OSX leads me to believe that the software people at Apple were railroaded by some hardware folks. Hard to believe that whole teams using Emacs / vim were ignored, but I've seen it happen before.
- dingo_bat 10y agoI was thinking "meh I don't use esc at all". Until you reminded me of vim. Then I realized it may well be one of the top 5 most used keys for me.
- toyg 10y ago> leads me to believe that the software people at Apple were railroaded by some hardware folks Well, the guy in charge (Ive) is basically a hardware person.
- rayiner 10y ago> Hard to believe that whole teams using Emacs / vim were ignored What do you use ESC for in Emacs? I used to occasionally use it to hit M-x, but now I use key-chord.el to map 'xx' to M-x and it's all good.
- kabdib 10y agoI used ESC as a M- prefix, of course. Also I use the command key. It's a mix of whatever is convenient and whatever my fingers have learned over a few decades. Maybe Apple has decided to kill off the pesky Emacs and vim users. Yeah. :-)
- MereInterest 10y agoBecause physical feedback and muscle memory are very nice things to have. Touch screens lack the former, which makes it hard to build the latter.
- supergreg 10y agoTouch typing. Unless they added some haptic feedback it's not gonna be enough.