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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by AdieuToLogic on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:19AM (#19555039) 

  the removal of the escape key (I'm a vim user)
To overcome this keyboard limitation in vim, Control-[ maps to ESC for programs which respect ASCII codes (Terminal and MacVim are two examples). In combination with swapping Caps Lock and Control (via System Preferences), I have found the need for an explicit ESC key greatly mitigated.

HTH

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by 0binbrain on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:24AM (#19555092)
Vim worked out of the box for me on my macbook. I guess someone fixed it?
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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by AdieuToLogic on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:05PM (#19557510)
The built-in vim (/usr/bin/vim) as well as all ones which I've custom built all respect/use the ASCII control character values instead of requiring platform-specific keyboard scan codes. Of course, YMMV and all that ;-).
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