> All of that besides the fact that you cannot really use VIM any more because the ESC button is gone... What serious VIM user has not remapped ESC? One of th

> All of that besides the fact that you cannot really use VIM any more because the ESC button is gone... What serious VIM user has not remapped ESC? One of the reasons I don't like to use VIM, is that the ESC key is so far away, and not suitable for ergonomic typing. If I wasn't already used to Emacs/Sublime and had to use VIM, I would have remapped it immediately. I probably still should, but I use it rarely enough that I don't bother. Mac OS even has a built-in option for remapping it to caps lock. Apple is very conservative about adding options in System Preferences, so I think this is something a lot of programmers do.