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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by Lio on Monday March 12, 2018 @07:17PM (#16572558)
The choice of escape in Vi was because it was originally developed for a keyboard like this terminal.

https://vintagecomputer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/LSI-AD...

Where escape is in a similar place to tab on PC keyboards. Also note the arrows on the home row.

Most dedicated vim users will move to using C-[ probably with caps lock mapped to Ctrl.

Other alternatives are map caps lock to escape or even have caps lock as escape when pressed and ctrl when held.

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