Re:MacBook Pro is a lie
by striking on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:02AM
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Ctrl-[ is a better Escape, though. (and is enabled by default in Vim, in your terminal, and Vim modes in other editors.) You don't even have to lift your fingers off the home row.
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I use that a lot but I like both depending on what I'm doing. It also kills command+F3 which I use constantly
Re:MacBook Pro is a lie
by Matthias247 on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:16AM
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However it's a console escape key, which means it doesn't work in graphical applications (VS Code, Atom, IDEs, ...). You might also want vim mode there. Or want easy access to escape for other reasons (intellisense can sometimes be annoying, ...).
Sublime's Vim mode (https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html)
> Vintage supports these ctrl key bindings:
* Ctrl+[: Escape
[... others]
VSCodeVim doesn't have it by default, but it's an option. https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim#usectrlkeys
If you need Escape, there is always a way to get it. Whether you bind the touch bar top-left to Escape (which you should in an editing application basically and nowhere else) or you use the widely-held Ctrl-[ default bind from your favorite Vim mode. Plus, the agency of being able to dynamically rebind the rest of the keys or use it as a separate HUD could be seen as useful.
I agree the MacBookPro 2016 is bad. But this is a stupid reason to think it's bad.