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Sadly they can't fix the fact that my laptop has no Esc key.
by bdamm 8y ago
Sadly they can't fix the fact that my laptop has no Esc key.
- GeneHackerman 8y agoIt's there on the touchbar.
- bdamm 8y agoIt's impossible to touch it and know that I actually landed on the key. Since most of my typing is by feel, I need to know that I landed on the key. Often my typing is seconds ahead of the display, and always behind of the decision making logic in my brain. I'm a vi user. I thought that maybe with a few months of just trusting the location on the touch bar that I'd get used to it. After all that 'training' I can land on the key about 90% of the time, which is about 9.9999% not close enough. And certainly I cannot consistently land on it with any other finger than the left ring finger when coming directly from the home row. My hands aren't always consistently on the home row, so that's also a problem. I have come to like the touchbar. But the Esc key needs to be promoted to a real key. Tactile response matters.
- GeneHackerman 8y agoI use vim daily and this isn't an issue. People have issues that if it's not physical it's not real, but the "Button" is there and functions as an escape key nonetheless.
- eridius 8y agoI admit I still sometimes have a momentary question when I go to hit Esc of "did I really hit it?" and yet I have unfailingly hit Esc 100% of the time I try. It helps that the TouchBar feels different than the computer body around it, so I can reliably tell that I hit the TouchBar, and the Esc hit area is so large that I'm simply not going to miss it.
- sitkack 8y agoI mostly switched to VSCode because the lack of an esc key.
- wilsonnb3 8y agoIt's pretty easy to remap to caps lock and doesn't take long to get used to. The caps lock location is a superior place to put the escape key anyways.
- bdamm 8y agoOh yeah baby! Older revs of Mac OS X didn't have this option but now I see that recent ones do. Whoo hoo! Back in business.