VI makes so much more sense now

Thanks to this answer from StackOverflow, the key mappings in VI and Vim make soooo much more sense now.  It's all explained by this keyboard layout:

The keyboard layout that was used when VI was created.

The more I use Vim, or the Vim emulation in Komodo, the less sense it makes to use the "escape" key to switch out of insert mode.  I mean, you have to move your hand way away from the home row just to reach it, which is exactly the opposite of how things are supposed to work.  But if you're using this keyboard, then it seems like a completely obvious choice.

Incidentally, after far too many years of suffering with the escape key, I've switched to using the other choices for getting out of insert mode — Ctrl-C and Ctrl-[.  Both do the same thing as the escape key, but require significantly less hand movement and so are faster to type.  Especially Ctrl-C, as most of us are used to using that for copying text to the clipboard.

Incidentally, since I'm using the Vim emulation for Komodo IDE/Edit, I should probably mention that it does support Ctrl-[ out of the box, but not Ctrl-C — that is, naturally, reserved for the "copy" operation.  However, it's easy to change that.  Simply create a new macro with the following code and set the key binding for it to Ctrl-C (you may have to unbind the standard "copy" operation first):

var scimoz = ko.views.manager.currentView.scimoz;
if (scimoz && scimoz.selText.length == 0) {
    ko.commands.doCommand('cmd_vim_cancel');
} else {
    ko.commands.doCommand('cmd_copy');
}

This macro preserves the standard copy behavior by checking if you have any text selected when it executes.  If you do, it does a standard "copy to clipboard".  If you don't, it switches the editor from "insert" mode to "normal" mode.

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