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zachlatta on April 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Engineer's take on Chrome OS

I'm always surprised when others don't know about it. To me, using escape defeats the purpose of Vim. It's almost like having to reach for your mouse.

Nick_C on April 3, 2013 [–]

Unless you've swapped CapsLock for Esc. Then it's easy as pie. In ~/.Xmodmap:

    ! Swap Caps Lock with Esc
    remove Lock = Caps_Lock
    keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
    keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
    add Lock = Caps_Lock

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