From: John Gabriele Date: 2006-04-26T23:56:42+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby IDE On 4/25/06, Logan Capaldo wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:20 PM, John Gabriele wrote: > > > Besides that, in general I find myself slowed down constantly hitting > > Ctrl-[, forgetting whether I'm in command mode or not. Either that, or > > I'm filling my files with ":w" or ">>" or "i", "b", "w"... > > > You're in command mode unless the bottom says > --INSERT-- > or > --VISUAL-- Right. Maybe I just haven't gotten into the habit of glancing down at the bottom of the window. It seems to me to take less concentration to just hit Ctrl-[ than to quickly look down and lose/find my place on the page. > I find ESC to be much faster than Ctrl-[, YMMV. > I use a funky programmable keyboard which only has a tiny rubber Esc button up away from the main keys. ( http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm ). So Ctrl-[ turns out to be faster for me.