Re: ESC key stopped working -- any alternate for menuless vim to get to normal mode?

On 08/10/13 06:06, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
> The CTRL-C has a known disadvantage of not triggering abbreviations and
> InsertLeave event.
>
> I would really suggest to switch to my scheme where ESC is located on
> left Control and Left Control is located on Caps Lock, no matter whether
> or not your escape key works: this is more convenient variant to work.

That scheme, which cannot be achieved by mappings but only by means
external to Vim, assumes that the Caps Lock function isn't needed. I use
it a lot: in my previous mail (and in this sentence) to type the word
AZERTY, in comments to bug reports whan talking about a bug which was
RESOLVED WONTFIX, when typing the "official" name (which is in all-caps)
of some Unicode codepoint, etc. etc. etc. Also I like the Ctrl key where
it is, on the left & right bottom corners of the "typewriter" part of
the keyboard, just below Shift and (on the left side) horizontally close
to Alt, (on the right side) horizontally close to the arrow keys. In
fact, on keyboards where the Esc key works, the location _I_ prefer for
it is the default, conveniently out of the way in the far top left
corner, where I won't hit it by mistake even when typing fast and a
little off-target.

Matter of personal preference of course; and one thing I like about Vim
is that different people can use different procedures to achieve the
same results. Use what suits you best; just don't imagine that it is
"more convenient" for everyone.

>
> Note: on the keyboard where I have neither Control nor Escape (Motorola
> Droid 4 hardware keyboard) I mapped jj to ESC. Control though is
> configured to reside on Volume Up (VimTouch setting).



Best regards,
Tony.
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