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I accidentally used Vim the other day. I noticed Vim now has Emacs keybindings -- C-n goes to the next line, C-p goes to the previous line, etc. For a second, I thought that C-x C-s was going to save my file and I was going to be able to exit with C-x C-c. Nope. I had to make the journey over to the ESC key. So close...

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You can use ZZ to save and close a document in Vim :)

I thought that sequence showed me an interactive listing of processes.

I think you're supposed to map Caps to be an ESC key in vim, just like most people who use emacs map it to be an extra Ctrl.

I have jj mapped to Esc in insert mode. If you type it quickly, the two j characters vanish and you escape out of insert mode. If you type them slowly, or preface them with ^v, you get two j characters in your text. I rarely need two j's in my text, of course, so it's a good escape key sequence, but pick whatever you want. I chose jj because it keeps me on home row.

No, you map it to Ctrl, and use Ctrl-[ instead of Esc.

Can't you just use ctrl-c?

I find it easier to hit ctrl-[, but yeah, ctrl-c does the same thing.

depends where that C is I guess, the Sholes (qwerty) placement of the [ might strain ones pinky! There is something satisfying about banging the escape key hard.

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