Fails to recognize control-[ as an alternative to ESC

[rwxrob]

... which is more important than ever on the new ESC-key-less Macbook Pros. No one should ever blow out their pinkies using the actual escape key.

[tmock12]

@robmuh 👍 Thanks for pointing that out. I've added ctrl+[ so it should function correctly now. I also put in a PR to add it to the seeds file. Let me know if you run into any issues and hope you enjoyed VimGenius.

Caveat for anyone reading this: ctrl+[ won't work on Asian or Mexican keyboard layouts, maybe others? But I don't think thats a big enough reason to leave it out, especially considering the layout of the newest Macbook Pros.

[rwxrob]

You raise a good point about other keyboards. There are so many workarounds people propose to map escape to other things. I believe finding the alternative to the actual ESC is best for all use VI since that will work on any system once it is discovered. Remapping ESC to other keys, as VIM allows, sort of defeats the main attraction to VIM: its ubiquity. (This is also why I disable arrow keys at the school.) Perhaps somehow the ESC could be mapped by the user of vimgenius to enable other keyboards. I have no idea what the equivs are elsewhere. And I LOVE vimgenius, I think it just became a new standard tool at our school here. (And prevents me from writing one of our own, lol, which I was just about to do.) *Rob Muhlestein* @skilstak <http://twitter.com/skilstak>, Inc. rob@skilstak.com 704-310-6778 @robmuh <http://twitter.com/robmuh>

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