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Best move is to bind `jj` to escape.


I’ve been doing this, as prompted by being assigned a touchstrip MacBook at my last job.

Have to say I was able to retrain pretty quickly. jj is now my first instinct even on full-sized keyboards. I now think it’s really an improvement. All about staying on that home row as much as possible..


Except that doesn’t work in every other app that doesn’t understand vi keys.




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