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Re:Vim ported to iOS by zzzmarcus on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:05PM (#3487340)
They remapped backslash to esc. Kind of a pain since you have to go through 2 keyboards to get to it, but it works.
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Re:Vim ported to iOS by redthrowaway on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:44PM (#3487505)
How are you supposed to code without backslashes? Are they anticipating never needing to escape anything?
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Re:Vim ported to iOS by lshevtsov on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:19AM (#3488577)
How exactly would going through 2 keyboards to switch modes work in a practical situation?
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Re:Vim ported to iOS by jamesgeck0 on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:54AM (#3489859)
That's why you'd edit .vimrc to rebind the functionality provided by escape to 'jj' or 'jk' or something of the nature.
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