On 2016-12-14, mm0fmf <n...@invalid.com> wrote: > On 14/12/2016 02:40, Paul Rubin wrote: >> Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Does the lack of a physical ESC key create problems for people, especially >>> Emacs users? >> >> Not a Mac user and I rarely use ESC instead of ALT while editing with >> Emacs on a local computer, but when editing remotely I do have to use >> ESC because the Gnome terminal emulator steals a few ALTed keys. Maybe >> there is a way to stop that behaviour but it didn't occur to me til just >> now. Hmm. >> >> Meanwhile the concept of a computer with "no escape" just shows Apple >> getting deeper into existentialism. First it was the hipster Mac users >> with the Beatnik black berets and turtlenecks, and now this. <wink> > > If you need a full time ESC key then you are just "typing it wrong" as > Steve Jobs would say if he wasn't dead.
With respect to pressing ESC in Emacs or Vim, you literally don't need a "full time" ESC key, you only need one when the keyboard input focus is on a terminal, Emacs or Vim window - and I should imagine that the ESC key is indeed present whenever that's the case. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
