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bryogenic
on Feb 9, 2017
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Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8
Also worth noting: Ctrl+[ = ESC in ASCII, which is where the keyboard shortcut comes from.
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
inlineint
on Feb 10, 2017
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And it is processed not by Vim itself, but by the terminal emulator that sends Esc character to Vim. So the shortcut Ctrl+[ was not invented by vi author, but is a consequence of using Esc to exit from the edit mode.
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