I&#x27;m a fan of &#x27;C-c&#x27; for escaping.<p>That keybinding works to go from insert to normal in most filetypes (looking at you sql) without the binding so unconfigured vims are still usable with it, and it&#x27;s really easy to reach.<p>I will admit it&#x27;s a little more awkward than caps-lock, but I use my caps-lock for ctrl and thus can caps-lock-c instead.<p>Escape isn&#x27;t really useful anywhere else in the system, so capslock as ctrl or super makes more sense to me.