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Apple shot themselves in the foot for this market with the touch bar. It adds such a small amount of utility for annoying every VIM user.
by yellow_postit 9y ago
Apple shot themselves in the foot for this market with the touch bar. It adds such a small amount of utility for annoying every VIM user.
- jen20 9y ago15 year VI and VIM user here. This is a stupid complaint: anyone seriously using VIM remapped Escape a long time ago, or learned to use Ctrl+[.
- squiggleblaz 9y agoI've been using vim seriously for years, and I've had escape on capslock for many of them. However, not all users know how to do that or haven't thought of the amazing benefits that can be obtained. There's people who are only picking up vim today. Give them a chance. To those who haven't: Give it a go. Put Escape on Caps lock. If you've got Control there and you're running Linux or Windows with a standard PC keyboard, you probably actually want to swap Control and Alt. If you haven't, you probably want to swap Control and Alt anyway. (This will give you bindings similar to the Mac's Command key. The thumb is a much stronger finger and far more suited to these combinations than the weak pinky.)
- tekromancr 9y agoI got lucky on that one! I have been remapping caps lock to escape for years now on every machine I use. It's great, until I need to use literally anybody else's machine.
- marssaxman 9y agoI have the same experience with the Dvorak layout, which is what I used when I learned to type, at age... um... nine? People crack up when I try to type on anyone else's machine, because my WPM drops by a factor of ten. This is part of the reason I basically refuse to customize anything on a new linux machine; my needs are already weird enough that I'd rather just adapt myself to the defaults for everything else.
- jamesrcole 9y agoVim users commonly map escape to caps-lock.
- killjoywashere 9y agoI don't, because my agency uses a very locked down Windows env and I can't even remap keys (shell?! You jest....)
- ViViDboarder 9y agoThen you don’t have the touchbar anyway.
- killjoywashere 9y agoNo, my main work environment makes the remapping inaccessible, so I have declined to buy a touchbar. A consultant offered me one free and I still declined, requesting an original rMBP instead.
- ascagnel_ 9y ago> map! jk <Esc> Remap the sequence "jk" to escape, you don't even have to take your hand off the home row to exit a mode.
- krinchan 9y agoCaps to Ctrl Ctrl to Escape Escape to Caps I mostly use Ctrl-[ for Escape. I have a lot or weird Ctrl bindings. Not an emacs level of Ctrl bindings, but enough that I use this particular rearrangement.
- threeseed 9y ago> It adds such a small amount of utility for annoying every VIM user. You have to love Emacs and Vim users. Quite sure Apple's world doesn't revolve around the needs of such a small user base.
- ubernostrum 9y agoFWIW I'm an Emacs user on a MBP with Touch Bar. No issues.
- crispinb 9y agoNot to mention every IntelliJ user, and every touch typist.