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A context based escape touchscreen is not a fucking escape key. I'm a daily driver of one of these crapboxes for work. IT DOES NOT HAVE AN ESC KEY. I am not

A context based escape touchscreen is not a fucking escape key. I'm a daily driver of one of these crapboxes for work. IT DOES NOT HAVE AN ESC KEY. I am not misled. I am not someone who has never used it. >You might as well criticize a smartphone keyboard because it doesn't have an Enter key or an "e" key Yes, because everyone knows that touchscreen typing on a smartphone is the paragon experience for typing. The experience that beats all else. Clearly, I want this experience on my development machine. THANKS APPLE! Oh wait, touchscreen typing fucking sucks. It sucks everywhere. It sucks SO badly that the ONLY place it ever became acceptable was a form factor so small that they were forced to compromise the experience to fit in screen real-estate. Why I'd want that experience front and center on a macbook is fucking unfathomable.

freehunter 7y ago
So there's your criticism. "The touchbar Macbook Pro has an awful Esc key". That's true and is something worth mentioning. "The touchbar Macbook Pro does not have an escape key" is being so deliberately misleading that you might even call it a lie. The iPad Pro does not have an escape key on the keyboard. This makes it impossible to use vim without remapping the keys. This is a fact and is a serious problem if you want to use vim on an iPad Pro smart keyboard. The touchbar Mac does have an escape key, even if it's not one you enjoy using. It is possible to use vim with the default configuration of a touchbar Macbook Pro without remapping keys. Again, there is no reason to lie and say "the touchbar Macbook Pro doesn't have an Esc key". You don't like it. That's fine. But if it actually doesn't exist, you should sue Apple for including it in almost all of their press pictures. >IT DOES NOT HAVE AN ESC KEY This is a lie.
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freehunter 7y ago

So there's your criticism. "The touchbar Macbook Pro has an awful Esc key". That's true and is something worth mentioning. "The touchbar Macbook Pro does not have an escape key" is being so deliberately misleading that you might even call it a lie. The iPad Pro does not have an escape key on the keyboard. This makes it impossible to use vim without remapping the keys. This is a fact and is a serious problem if you want to use vim on an iPad Pro smart keyboard. The touchbar Mac does have an escape key, even if it's not one you enjoy using. It is possible to use vim with the default configuration of a touchbar Macbook Pro without remapping keys. Again, there is no reason to lie and say "the touchbar Macbook Pro doesn't have an Esc key". You don't like it. That's fine. But if it actually doesn't exist, you should sue Apple for including it in almost all of their press pictures. >IT DOES NOT HAVE AN ESC KEY This is a lie.

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