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Comment by wawhal | Hacker News Reader

You can use `Ctrl + C` instead of `ESC`

I figured this out today. And I submitted this Ask HN to find out more such things.

> You can use `Ctrl + C` instead of `ESC`

Even better: Map "jk" to Escape. Enter normal mode without even leaving the home keys; so much easier.

.vimrc:

    inoremap jk <Esc>

It's not recommended to use <C-C> in place of Esc because it doesn't trigger an InsertLeave event

Guy who uses <C-c> here. Is that bad?

It is if one of your plugins uses the InsertLeave event to do its work. If in doubt, `grep -R InsertLeave ~/.vim`.

Also ctrl+[ , if that's any easier.

Fun fact is that `C-[` is the same keypress as `<ESC>` due to how ascii control codes work http://jkorpela.fi/chars/c0.html

Those are incredibly frustrating when you're trying to find new bindings, just about all the non-control ones are already used.