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Re:Neovim by dagi3d on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:27PM (#7279881)
>I don't use Vim much now because I work a lot in Windows, and 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. However, I still use it in the shell or when I need to make certain global edits.

some people discourage the use of the Esc key and prefer to use Ctrl-c instead. I'd recommend to disable it and force to use the Ctrl-c combo. I did it and completely forgot about the Esc key(actually I find it more comfortable)

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Re:Neovim by Jach on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:57PM (#7280020)
I have a habit of typing 'jkjk...' in command mode when I'm thinking, and eventually I got sick of stretching my fingers to escape into command mode so I just used 'jk' as my escape sequence.

    imap jk <Esc>
Of course now in non-vim editors I sometimes have to undo the occasional jk sequence... But my point is that the escape key can be whatever people want it to be.
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Re:Neovim by graywh on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:20PM (#7283883)
Use ctrl-c only if you never want to be able to use a count with an insert command, e.g. 10a=<Esc> .
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