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ok this is going to sound stupid, but I don't care. learning time, for me.

do you type the literal characters "esc + ." or do you press CTRL+[ then period, or do you push the escape key, then period, or do you push escape and period at the same time?

I'm not at a terminal to try any of this and find out for myself.

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I press and hold escape first then period

ESC isn't a control code like CTRL or SHIFT or ALT - so holding it while you press another key is weird, to me.

But pressing and releasing ESC and then pressing and releasing period works excellently. Thank you.

Ahh nice, yeah, that works, I always just assumed I needed to hit ESC first, but didn't know they didn't need to be held at the same time

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