From: Hans Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T03:27:04+09:00
Subject: Re: OT:  vi useability question

Roeland Moors wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:07:28AM +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 ?
>>
>>
> 
> For me the <esc> is very easy to type on my notebook keyboard,
> but I have always trouble finding the <ctrl>. It's a small button
> between <fn> and the windows button. Very annoying, so I try to
> avoid that button.
> 

So remap caps to ctrl. caps is not only mostly useless, it's much bigger 
than it should be on most laptop keyboards, but it makes a great ctrl.