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What do you use ESC for? It doesn't seem particularly common these days, and ^[ tends to be just as good, in my experience.
by canhascodez 8y ago
What do you use ESC for? It doesn't seem particularly common these days, and ^[ tends to be just as good, in my experience.
- nerder92 8y agovim?
- brazzledazzle 8y agoYou can map caps-lock to escape to reduce travel but some HN folks turned me on to the idea of avoiding it altogether: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
- marcus_holmes 8y agoI map Caps-lock to Ctrl, purely so I stop hitting it by accident. It works well, I find myself using it as CTRL often. THEN I Use someone eLSEs keyboarD AND...
- gaizka-allende 8y ago:imap jj <Esc>
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- canhascodez 8y agoI've never used ESC in vim. I learned ^[ first, and it's less travel.
- JdeBP 8y agoIt's not just VIM and NeoVIM where one can find the escape key commonly used. One can drive GUIs with keyboards to an extent, including the escape key to cancel dialogues and pop-up/drop-down menus. This is true for many full-screen TUIs too, including orthodox file managers for starters.
- kabdib 8y agoNearly 40 years of muscle memory with Emacs. I often use ALT for meta, but sometimes forget, and it's jarring.