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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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