Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by canhascodez on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:04PM (#17991398)

What do you use ESC for? It doesn't seem particularly common these days, and ^[ tends to be just as good, in my experience.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by JdeBP on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:01AM (#17993472)

It's not just VIM and NeoVIM where one can find the escape key commonly used.

One can drive GUIs with keyboards to an extent, including the escape key to cancel dialogues and pop-up/drop-down menus. This is true for many full-screen TUIs too, including orthodox file managers for starters.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by kabdib on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:22PM (#17995413)

Nearly 40 years of muscle memory with Emacs. I often use ALT for meta, but sometimes forget, and it's jarring.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by nerder92 on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:46PM (#17991708)

vim?

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by brazzledazzle on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:20PM (#17992405)

You can map caps-lock to escape to reduce travel but some HN folks turned me on to the idea of avoiding it altogether: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by marcus_holmes on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:06AM (#17993487)

I map Caps-lock to Ctrl, purely so I stop hitting it by accident. It works well, I find myself using it as CTRL often.

THEN I Use someone eLSEs keyboarD AND...

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by canhascodez on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:39PM (#17994914)

I've never used ESC in vim. I learned ^[ first, and it's less travel.

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