"One downside I found was that the Ctrl-[ combo seems to back up the cursor one character, which can be annoying."
So, technically you could just flutter the pedal to move the cursor left? :)
So, technically you could just flutter the pedal to move the cursor left? :)
It's not just Ctrl-[ that does this, Escape does it too. We just typically don't toggle between insert mode / ESC in vim fast enough and enough times to notice it. With the pedal it's quite easy to press and release it a bunch of times before you type anything.