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?

I know that Control + [ does the same thing, but that's not really easier for me.

Eelvex · Answer 1 · 2011-03-02 17:59:20Z

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.

There is a similar discussion on SO

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Thiago M. · Answer 2 · 2011-03-02 16:08:04Z

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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

answered Mar 2 '11 at 16:08

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