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> i and ESC I think i and Ctrl+[ is better? It's more in line with the idea of keeping your hands near home row.
by rifung 9y ago
> i and ESC
I think i and Ctrl+[ is better? It's more in line with the idea of keeping your hands near home row.
- sevensor 9y agoIt's a fair point. I learned ESC long years before ^[ and it's stuck in my muscle memory. But a new user might benefit from using ^[ instead. Some keyboards put F1 where ESC belongs, and my habit has been to remap F1 to NOP because help is so annoying, but maybe I should remap ESC to help. That would get me to switch over in short order.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoI've remapped capslock to ESC. I can't remember ever wanting to use capslock mode since I first learned to touch type. Much easier to have Esc there. Or Backspace, Home, End, or delete are also good options.
- Analog24 9y agoI mapped capslock to Control and use Control-c instead of escape. It's much easier on my pinky.
- dkersten 9y agoLike sibling, I also mapped capslock to control. I use ^[ instead of ESC and there are other control-<whatever> shortcuts that are extremely useful, so it gets more utility than ESC would. Of course, then I bought a kinesis advantage2 keyboard and now suddenly every key is easy to press, even the cursor keys.