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A comment on Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8. Parent comment

Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 by javitury on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:57PM (#13609729)
For me the best way to have an accessible ESC key is just to use Alt-h, Alt-j, or just pressing Alt with any normal mode key. It will work on any vim installation out of the box, it is easily accessible and doesn't require remapping.
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Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 by groovy2shoes on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:28PM (#13610040)
As long as your terminal is configured to send the Meta modifier as an ESC prefix rather than a shift bit, and as long as your Alt key serves as Meta.
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Re:Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 by cassowary on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:16PM (#13611945)
I've set my capslock to be escape and my alt to be control. I don't know where my alt is, but I've never really used it. (I think the only usecase for alt is Alt-Tab to switch windows, but that always feels epically unpredictable to me. What's going to happen? ... I prefer just clicking on the window I want).
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