Is there an easier-to-reach mapping for ESC in Vim?

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When using Vim (specifically, MacVim), I hit ESC about a thousand times a day. It's a bit far to reach for such an important key.

Has anybody mapped this to something more comfortable? If so, how did you do it?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Caps Lock is a nice alternative but these are predefined:

also, a very common mapping is the jj (or even <leader>j) since the sequence 'jj' is extremely rare in typing.

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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answered Mar 02 '11 at 17:17

Eelvex

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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You could remap the Caps Lock key to an ESC key which is shown via the following superuser question. Map CapsLock key to ESC in Mac OS X

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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answered Mar 02 '11 at 16:08

paradd0x

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