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Re:Vim clutch by merlincorey on Thursday June 21, 2012 @04:15PM (#4143974)
Regarding emacs pinky, many people find remapping CAPSLOCK to CONTROL helps quite a bit. Here is one popular xmodmapping:

  remove lock = Caps_Lock
  remove Control = Control_L
  keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
  add lock = Caps_Lock
  add Control = Control_L
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Re:Vim clutch by jlgreco on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:38PM (#4144518)
CapsLock to Escape is something I find useful with Vim. A lot of people advocate mapping it to Ctrl then using Ctrl-c or Ctrl-], but It's better to just skip the middleman I think.
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Re:Vim clutch by clvv on Thursday June 21, 2012 @10:30PM (#4145128)
If you're using X, then xcape can map both Esc and Ctrl to Capslock. https://github.com/alols/xcape
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Re:Vim clutch by jlgreco on Friday June 22, 2012 @12:53PM (#4147576)
Now that is clever. Thanks for this.
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Re:Vim clutch by cageface on Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:50PM (#4144910)
You can also map it to something like 'jj'. I don't use vim that much now but I found that more ergonomic than any of the special keys.
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