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Re:Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in Ma... by eric_h on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @07:28PM (#12792698)
Not a vim user (but I know how to use it-ish). The escape key as the key in vim always struck me as an odd choice, ergonomically.

Of course, I've mapped ctrl to the caps lock key, so...

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Re:Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in Ma... by vacri on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:15PM (#12792932)
The original vi was created on a keyboard that had Esc in the place where CapsLock now lives (on a standard US or UK English 104-key keyboard)
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Re:Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in Ma... by phaemon on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:26AM (#12795313)
The original `vi` was written on an ADM-3A terminal. If you have a look at the keyboard layout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A#/media/File:KB_Terminal...

You can not only see why Esc was easy to hit, but also the arrow keys (and, in common with other terminals of the time, why "home" is "~")

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