New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore

Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by mozumder on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:25PM (#12817702)

For what commands? I'm trying to look up vim commands that would use the ESC key, and I only see one: https://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html#select http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.html

I'm not even a power user, & after 25 years, I just know the basic few commands that you need to do anything - insert, delete, search/replace, save, & quit.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by Falcorian on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:34PM (#12817799)

ESC is the key that (roughly) takes you back to normal mode from insert mode, visual mode, etc. If you aren't using it, then you're either using one of the other ways to get back to normal mode (like CTRL-[), or you are using Vi in a very non-standard way.

See, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#Interface

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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by blowski on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:34PM (#12817803)

To switch modes from insert back to normal mode. I assumed ESC was the second key any Vim user used, just after `i`.

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Re:New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore by bitbiter on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:37PM (#12817835)

From the docs: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#i_%3CEsc%3...

End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish abbreviation.

Note: If your <Esc> key is hard to hit on your keyboard, train yourself to use CTRL-[.

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