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Esc is probably the easiest key to hit in the keyboard? Tied with bottom left ctrl/fn and whatever you have in the other two corners. As in it's the easiest to

Esc is probably the easiest key to hit in the keyboard? Tied with bottom left ctrl/fn and whatever you have in the other two corners. As in it's the easiest to misclick without accidentally hitting other keys

the_gipsy 5y ago
The easiest are F and J, the home keys where your index fingers rest. The more you have to "reach away", the harder it is to always correctly reset your hand.
- airstrike 5y ago
  well, we can’t really have F be a special key to return to normal mode
  - the_gipsy 5y ago
    I'm not advocating for that! Just that Esc/Mode shouldn't be far. Vim uses Esc for mode switching because the author wrote vim on a keyboard that had Esc where now Capslock is on a modern keyboard.