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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by derefr on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:31AM (#12817009)
Recent generations, yes. vi was designed for a keyboard where the Escape key was where the Caps Lock key is today. When Escape ended up in a hard-to-reach place on the 103-key layout, vi users sighed and rolled with it (and new users didn't know any better.)
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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by eatbitseveryday on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:48AM (#12817247)
> the Escape key was where the Caps Lock key is today

Apparently it was where the Tab key was[1] as metafunctor pointed out.

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

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