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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 inlineint on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:56AM (#13614143)
And it is processed not by Vim itself, but by the terminal emulator that sends Esc character to Vim. So the shortcut Ctrl+[ was not invented by vi author, but is a consequence of using Esc to exit from the edit mode.
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