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Re:Neovim by philsnow on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:35PM (#7279236)
> Vim got me into the habit of hitting escape when I was through entering text, but escape cancels the input in a lot of programs.

Does ^[ cancel input in any programs ? AFAIK vim understands the ^[, not the "escape key". the key labeled "ESC" creating a ^[ is a convention used in terminal emulators.

Not that it's going to help you now, but if you had trained your fingers to hit ^[ rather than the escape key (or even ^C but that has other semantics in windows whereas I don't think ^[ does), I wonder if you would be having the same problem now..

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Re:Neovim by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:52PM (#7279353)
^[ just generates ASCII character 0x1B, aka Escape.

Vim understands "escape" to be 0x1B, pressed by itself (not as part of a longer escape sequence).

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Re:Neovim by gpvos on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:24AM (#7281666)
Not practical. ^[ is a two-key combination, so more RSI-inducing. And you need escape a lot, especially in plain vi.

And the ESC key has been generating ASCII 27 on keyboards for a long time. It's definitely not just terminal emulators.

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