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ctrl+[ is identical to <ESC> and much easier to reach.
by fsh 4y ago
ctrl+[ is identical to <ESC> and much easier to reach.
- zhengyi13 4y agoIn my case, I agree, but when I asked about this key combo once elsewhere, a number of folk pointed out that this is true for the standard US QWERTY layout, but not necessarily so for various EU or other layouts.
- godelski 4y agoHow do you program if you have a hard time accessing array elements?
- bitofhope 4y agoAltGr+8 is reasonable enough that I don't feel like learning a new layout. Ctrl+AltGr+8 is involved enough that I might as well press Esc. A lot of software developers are unaware of the AltGr[1] key or even assume US ANSI layout altogether so as a user I have been trained not to take keybindings involving that layer for granted. As a real world example of similar issues, there's piece of software (I think it was telnet or mosh, but I apologize if I misremember) where Ctrl+^ is used as an escape sequence. This doesn't work for me, possibly because caret is a dead key[2] on my keyboard. For some reason, perhaps related to using scancodes instead of key codes, Ctrl+6 happens to work in that application. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key