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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by jstapels on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:03AM (#13365816)
I think the missing ESC is probably the majority of the issues the nay-sayers have.

I bet if they had just moved the ESC key to the tilde and had the Fn key turn it back into the tilde key, people (developers) would have received the touch bar a lot better.

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by OJFord on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @06:49PM (#13370443)
> I bet if they had just moved the ESC key to the tilde

No! Tilde/backtick key, are you kidding?

I use those almost as much in a development setting as Esc!

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Re:I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar by jstapels on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @09:39AM (#13374131)
You cut off the rest of my comment, I said the Fn key turns it back into the Backtick/Tilde key.

Other than "Shell" programmers, I don't think the backtick is really that popular. System and embedded programmer would probably be frustrated without simple access to the tilde for bit flipping, but overall, I think having ESC back make the most number of people happy.

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