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silentbicycle on July 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was W...

Or you can remap caps-lock to escape. I know that doesn't match the whole 'vi is already everywhere (on Unix)' aspect, but it's an option.

ralph on July 30, 2010 [–]

Surely Caps Lock is already mapped to Ctrl? Then Ctrl-[ for Escape becomes easier as do all the other Ctrl combinations.

silentbicycle on July 30, 2010 | [–]

I could see hardcore vi users mapping it to Escape rather than Ctrl.

Or maybe Menu, Windows, etc. keys, on keyboards that have them.

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