It's probably more comfortable than reaching an unremapped modern PC Escape key, though. And if you do light remapping, making Caps a Control instead (as in th

It's probably more comfortable than reaching an unremapped modern PC Escape key, though. And if you do light remapping, making Caps a Control instead (as in the Mac's Keyboard control panel) makes ^[ even easier. If you're really down with keyboard remapping, though, go for putting the Escape key somewhere closer. I learned a Sun keyboard in grad school, which put Esc where PCs have backquote/tilde, and I've remapped every keyboard I use regularly to this arrangement. (I also swap backslash and backspace for roughly the same reason.)