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Comment by madphilosopher | Hacker News Reader

You can remap the key combination "jk" to ESC in order to switch effortlessly from editing mode to normal mode.

    inoremap jk <esc>

("jk" doesn't normally appear in English and is easy to type)

but in other languages you might be doomed

  $ aspell --lang=pl dump master | cut -d / -f 1 | fgrep jk | wc -l
   981

kj, jj, kk are common options as well.

I love this mapping.

Unfortunately 90% of vim interface implementations don't support it.