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About the escape key, is it not possible to place a digital version of it in the touch bar?... not defending apple I'm also not happy with this MBP but I think
by messutied 10y ago
About the escape key, is it not possible to place a digital version of it in the touch bar?... not defending apple I'm also not happy with this MBP but I think at least that can be worked around.
- idlewords 10y agoI believe that's the solution they went with.
- Lio 10y agoTrue but the screenshots released so far indicate that it's centred, so it's position will move depending on context. Not good for muscle memory.
- nicky0 10y agoNo, it is positioned at the far left on all screen shots. There is a small, ugly, constant margin however.
- Lio 10y agoI guess we'll know for sure once they ship. Hopefully, it could be be something that's configurable to preference. If it's just an ugly margin around the Esc key then I still think it's poor UX work.
- nicky0 10y agoI agree. I don't think they should have put the esc key there at all. I would have made the key to the left of the "1" key the Esc key, and moved the original functions of that key somewhere else. However this is coming from a UK user on which the key in question has the symbols "§" and "±". Which I never type. I understand the US layout has some more useful symbols there.
- hatmatrix 10y agoIf it's about switching modes on vim, can't you just use Ctrl-[?
- dagw 10y agoThat combination is a massive pain to hit on many non-US keyboards.
- MawNicker 10y agoI remapped my keys like this: CAPS-LOCK ⬅ CONTROL ⬅ ESCAPE ⬅ CAPS-LOCK Escape is just too far away for my vim-flow. This has been much better. It's mostly positive outside of vim too. The only real gotcha is using another machine.
- zelos 10y agoOr remap Caps Lock as Escape with Seil (which I just discovered)