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I switched to Vim because my left pinky was getting numb, *(thanks vim!) and then to Sublime, and now, Atom, for aesthetic reasons, really. Easier to read, I don't wanna wind up needing glasses. I'm still using the vim packages though.

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You don't have to abandon vim just because of pinky strain.

You could just remap jj or jk to ESC.

Parent was saying they left emacs for pinky strain.

How can you use regular letters in place of ESC in vim? How would you type "Dijkstra"?

Just type jk slowly.

Also see [1]:

  :help timeoutlen

and

  :help ttimeoutlen

[1] - http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27timeou...

Alternatively, you can type jjkak (insert a j, exit insert mode with cursor on the j, enter insert mode one character to the right, insert a k).

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key

See the 'jj' part in the 'Mappings' section.

Just like in the shell, anything prepended with Control+V will be input literally, so you can type Dij<C-v>kstra.

Yeah, man. That shit freaked me out real bad. I also started eating salads and stopped hunching so much at the monitor.

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