[geeks] Documentation Viewer Recommendation

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> 
>> wrote:
>> since Apple decided
>>> to make the first laptop that won't work with Vim.
>> 
>> Eh? Is this something in the newest version of the OS?
>
> They've removed the escape key and replaced it with a gee-whiz colorized
> touchscreen.  Part of (near where "F1" used to be) is sometimes used to
> generate an escape keypress, but it's context-sensitive.
>
> I use the remainder of the F-keys in Vim for tab management and running
> build/diff scripts.  They've all been removed unless I want to hold down a
> "fn" key.
>
> So now I carry a ThinkPad, grit my teeth, and deal with Windows for
> whatever won't run on FreeBSD.

I'm not a fan of the touchbar, definitely not defending it.  However,
I've used enough systems over the years that didn't have a proper ESC
key that I'm more likely to hit CTRL-[ to generate the ESC as I am to
reach up and hit the ESC key itself.  I've known I've done it, but
didn't really occur to me how often I'd done that until this past week
when I was working on some VMs under ESXi and for some reason, CTRL-[
didn't get passed in and I had to reach for the real key. Muscle memory
can be a funny thing.

I also have always mapped CTRL to be left of the A key and don't even
bother mapping the CAPS-LOCK back in.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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