When editing in Vim the keys that I hate most are “ESC” (Esc, Shift and CapsLock). They interrupt my thoughts when I have to find the keys far, far away from the comfort area of my fingers, not to mention the mistypes like pressing tab when I mean CapsLock.
There are many ways to get rid of these keys, below is my recipe.
No guarantee you can throw the “ESC” keys away, but I would say your fingers will stay away from “ESC” for 80% of your typing experience.
In your vim configuration file, .vimrc if you are in Linux, set the mappings as:
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"map space to @ (shift-2) for easier use the record buffer
map <space> @
"jumping among windows, with the arrow keys
nnoremap <silent> <Down> <C-W>j
nnoremap <silent> <Up> <C-W>k
nnoremap <silent> <Left> <C-W>h
nnoremap <silent> <Right> <C-W>l
" not to even think about the <ESC> key
imap jj <ESC>
"delete a word in insert mode
imap jjd <ESC>diwi
"capitalize the first character of the current word, in Insert mode
imap jjc <ESC>b~A
" Swap ; and :, save the Shift key.
nnoremap ; :
nnoremap : ;
"page down
map ,j <C-d>
"page up
map ,k <C-u>
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