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4 years of college on Sun workstation keyboards and then another 4 years in the late 90's at work and my hand and brain are hardwired to expect control being where caps lock is on traditional PC keyboards.

In vi/vim I never hit the escape key, because the old terminals I used in high school didn't have an escape key or arrow keys. ctrl and left curly bracket is escape and h, j, k, l are to move the cursor.

The muscle memory is too strong to change after 30+ years so change the keyboard mappings instead!




This is the main reason I use a HHKB. I'd support any other keyboard makers who put the CTRL in the right place too.




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