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> Remap the Escape key to CapsLock else you will never like vim (provided you are a normal person) I guess I'm not a normal person then? Never bothered doing t

> Remap the Escape key to CapsLock else you will never like vim (provided you are a normal person) I guess I'm not a normal person then? Never bothered doing the remapping and I've been an enthusiastic Vim user for a decade.

MSFT_Edging 3y ago
Smacking the escape key constantly is probably my favorite part of using Vim. It has me smacking escape all the time to see what it does in other apps. I love when esc is just mapped to a "stop doing that" or "go back". Also doing embedded stuff, I find the caps lock key nice for when typing out a few defines or macros.
- dinkleberg 3y ago
  Haha I’d hate to know the number of form modals I’ve closed out of after instinctively hitting escape.
cassepipe 3y ago
I don't know you but that is likely. Most people are not believers and when they find something inconvenient they abandon it. Most people do what most people are doing :-) That's not the case for me. I am a believer, I use Firefox, Signal and vim, not Chrome, WhatsApp or VsCode. And I like it that way. The problem with being a believer is that you tend to downplay issues and that can bite you sometimes. I know because I have been been bothered by Escape being too far away for one whole year and use the weird combo instead. Surely there was a good reason for things being that way but I finally asked it turned out there was not. Maybe you are the rare person that has very long fingers or whatnot and it's not inconvenient for you but you most likely are a believer :)
- camtarn 3y ago
  Haha, yes, this is very true. I was the guy who gave a lunchtime lightning presentation on why to use Vim (TL;DR: automating repetitive actions using the . key, macros, :global, :normal etc etc) :) I use jk to get out of Insert mode on my local machine, and ctrl-C on remote machines where I don't have my .vimrc.

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> Remap the Escape key to CapsLock else you will never like vim (provided you are a normal person) I guess I'm not a normal person then? Never bothered doing t

by camtarn 3y ago

MSFT_Edging 3y ago
Smacking the escape key constantly is probably my favorite part of using Vim. It has me smacking escape all the time to see what it does in other apps. I love when esc is just mapped to a "stop doing that" or "go back". Also doing embedded stuff, I find the caps lock key nice for when typing out a few defines or macros.
- dinkleberg 3y ago
  Haha I’d hate to know the number of form modals I’ve closed out of after instinctively hitting escape.
cassepipe 3y ago
I don't know you but that is likely. Most people are not believers and when they find something inconvenient they abandon it. Most people do what most people are doing :-) That's not the case for me. I am a believer, I use Firefox, Signal and vim, not Chrome, WhatsApp or VsCode. And I like it that way. The problem with being a believer is that you tend to downplay issues and that can bite you sometimes. I know because I have been been bothered by Escape being too far away for one whole year and use the weird combo instead. Surely there was a good reason for things being that way but I finally asked it turned out there was not. Maybe you are the rare person that has very long fingers or whatnot and it's not inconvenient for you but you most likely are a believer :)
- camtarn 3y ago
  Haha, yes, this is very true. I was the guy who gave a lunchtime lightning presentation on why to use Vim (TL;DR: automating repetitive actions using the . key, macros, :global, :normal etc etc) :) I use jk to get out of Insert mode on my local machine, and ctrl-C on remote machines where I don't have my .vimrc.