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Vim reasons I'm guessing
by hyperhopper 3y ago
Vim reasons I'm guessing
- camgunz 3y agoMaybe but I strongly recommend Ctrl-[ instead. Life changing.
- kstrauser 3y agoI finally learned that trick when I spent a lot of time typing on an iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard Folio. It doesn't have an escape key at all. It bugged me terribly at first but I liked it once I was used to it.
- microtonal 3y agoUf. Get a keyboard with a thumb cluster and put Esc there. I use vi bindings everywhere and not putting Esc on a an easy to reach key would be terrible.
- lawn 3y agoIf you want to have Escape in a good position, then the far top left is a really bad position, as is having Control on the caps lock position. But then to change that you'd need to reconsider the keyboard layout itself, which seems like a too big of a mental hurdle for most people.
- graywh 3y agoCtrl next to A pre-dates vi
- madphilosopher 3y agoYou can remap the key combination "jk" to ESC in order to switch effortlessly from editing mode to normal mode. inoremap jk <esc> ("jk" doesn't normally appear in English and is easy to type)
- hyperhopper 3y agoI love this mapping. Unfortunately 90% of vim interface implementations don't support it.
- folmar 3y agobut in other languages you might be doomed $ aspell --lang=pl dump master | cut -d / -f 1 | fgrep jk | wc -l 981
- dbalatero 3y agokj, jj, kk are common options as well.
- microtonal 3y agoProbably, but it's still an awful pinky stretch a gazillion times a day. I have escape on my thumb cluster. Easy to reach and utilizes the strong thumbs.