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Re:Vim Anywhere by derriz on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:59PM (#16396852)
I've gotten used to typing CTRL-[ instead of reaching for the Escape key because of the inconsistencies in its size and placement on various keyboards I use. Yes it's two fingers but you have to use CTRL in vim to get any benefit anyway.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by Moter8 on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:23PM (#16397022)
Quite difficult to type CTRL-[ for me, as it's actually CTRL+ALT+8 on a german layout keyboard :/

Oh, and on Mac CTRL+ALT+5 if I remember correctly.

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Re:Vim Anywhere by fphilipe on Saturday February 17, 2018 @02:25AM (#16399530)
Have been using a US keyboard and never looked back to the Swiss one. Much better for programming and accents and umlauts are still easy to type. As I also occasionally type in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and French, I find the US keyboard to be the neutral middle ground.
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