Hi! Author here.<p>Fair points. I&#x27;m gonna start out on the defensive: I didn&#x27;t post the article, which kinda stinks because if I knew it was going to get such attention I would have updated it to my current setup. Anyways as the 1.5 year old article states:<p><pre><code>  This article will almost certainly fall out of date with my vimrc in the very near future
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I don&#x27;t do jk escape anymore. I have since abandoned custom escapes because I work often enough on remote servers with vanilla vimrcs that don&#x27;t have custom escape bindings set that the penalty I pay having to stop and consider which environment I&#x27;m in before every escape wasn&#x27;t worth the small quality of life enhancement from having it set locally.<p>Good tip on caps lock, though I currently have it set to control which I find is a much better use of the key. Especially once you know about ctrl-o.