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Re:Vim – Minimal Setup Explained by airstrike on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:36PM (#30463764)
Esc is probably the easiest key to hit in the keyboard? Tied with bottom left ctrl/fn and whatever you have in the other two corners. As in it's the easiest to misclick without accidentally hitting other keys
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Re:Vim – Minimal Setup Explained by the_gipsy on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:20AM (#30464511)
The easiest are F and J, the home keys where your index fingers rest. The more you have to "reach away", the harder it is to always correctly reset your hand.
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Re:Vim – Minimal Setup Explained by airstrike on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:55AM (#30467890)
well, we can’t really have F be a special key to return to normal mode
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Re:Vim – Minimal Setup Explained by the_gipsy on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:11AM (#30476255)
I'm not advocating for that! Just that Esc/Mode shouldn't be far. Vim uses Esc for mode switching because the author wrote vim on a keyboard that had Esc where now Capslock is on a modern keyboard.
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