Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
I met my wife because she was stuck in VI.  I was a unix sysadmin in the early 90s, and she was a grad student.  She came to me for help (like most of the 1st years did) because she couldn&#x27;t get out of vi.  However, to be fair, this was not her fault per-say.  She actually knew how to use vi, but just couldn&#x27;t find the ESC key.<p>Does anybody remember the DEC keyboards where there <i>was</i> no traditional ESC key, but it was F11?  (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cosam.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;vt220&#x2F;keyboard.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cosam.org&#x2F;images&#x2F;vt220&#x2F;keyboard.jpg</a>).  Yeah, we used DECstations in the grad labs, and whenever a new grad student asked me a question in the 1st week, I&#x27;d answer &quot;F11&quot;, and 90% of the time I was right.