From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2004-12-19T09:24:59+09:00
Subject: Re: OT:  vi useability question

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 08:07 +0900, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello ruby-talk,
> 
> i played a little bit with VI because i plan to add a compatibility
> mode to ArachnoRuby and i found that returning from input to command
> mode with escape breaks the VI rule of leaving your hands on the
> keyboard.
> 
> I found that Control-I would be much better (and easy to remember)
> then escape.
> 
> Is this just my personal problem or do others feel the same ?

It's your keyboard. The truly traditional keyboard has escape somewhere
near where the modern 104-key has the tilde.

The happy hacking keyboard gets it right.

Ari