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Comment by ssijak | Hacker News Reader

So much complaining about something that we didn't even yet seen in action. Guys from Apple are not that stupid to remove f1-12 keys and put something completely useless and UX unfriendly, give them a chance of showing it first and then complain. And all the other talk about ports, magsafe and other stuff that are just guesses, why do you complain about something that is not even confirmed?

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I am really curious to see how using Vim without a physical Escape key would work.

New in Sierra, they allow for native remapping of caps lock to esc. I had been using a 3rd party solution to do this before the update. Won't make everyone happy but the number of Vim users using the Esc key as opposed to Ctrl+[ (or caps lock) has to be decreasing ..

To save other a search I found out how here: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/remapping-caps-lock-ke...

I'm told serious vim users tend to not use esc anyways:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

Apparently I'm merely a casual vim user, but I would struggle without an esc key.

Wow thanks for this, didn't know about the alt trick

An apparently serious vim user here.

You shouldn't be using the escape key because it takes your left hand off the home row. I prefer the Caps Lock mapping to the 'jj' variant which might make be more work for my pinky and be slightly slower but it works for me.

Having easy access to your mode switching character is important because training yourself to enter Normal after entering a piece of text is the first step to 'next level' Vim use.

For you GNOME users, making your Caps Lock an escape key is as easy as setting it in the Tweak Tool.

Huh, guess I'm a serious vim user! I've got Caps Lock as the escape key, and shift+escape as Caps Lock.

The biggest downside is that if I'm using someone else's computer, I keep yelling for no good reason.

The classic practice in Vim is to NOT use Escape (or arrow keys for that matter).

That said, what's to say you can't use the strip to provide an Esc when running MacVim or iTerm etc?

I'm hoping that it'll have contextual function and escape keys that use the taptic engine. I'd be able to live with that.

Right, who would put only a single USB port on a device? Haha!

No way they screw this up.

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