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Not sure I qualify as an “elite” but I’ve never seen an original keyboard with the escape where thr caps is on a modern keyboard. I’ve seen them in the place o
by Lio 8y ago
Not sure I qualify as an “elite” but I’ve never seen an original keyboard with the escape where thr caps is on a modern keyboard.
I’ve seen them in the place of the tab key but never on the home row.
Personally, as a long time Vi user, I think you’re better off mapping the caps key to Ctrl and using C-[ for escape. That leaves you with many more Vim insert mode commands within easy reach.
E.g.
C-r <buffer> — to put a buffer
C-h — backspace
C-i — tab
C-m — CR
C-xC-f — complete filename
Etc, etc.
h,j,k & l are really only the simplest od vi navigation keys. Once you know how to, say, jump to 3rd paragraph or to jump or to the middle of the screen you won’t use them anywhere near as much.
Much as I love vi navigation owning a Pok3r keyboard has shown me how annoying it is to not have dedicated cursor keys for GUI applications.
- sator-arepo 8y agoI have Caps remapped to Esc and Ctrl swapped with Alt. This way both Ctrl and Esc are easy to reach, and my left pinky doesn't hurt.
- derimagia 8y agoAny keyboard can do it, it's just a software thing. Mac even supports switching the Caps lock to escape in the system preferences.
- Lio 8y agoYep. It’s portability is what I love about it.