[OLPC-devel] Escape keys and keyboards.....

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 02:49, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> > vi. The hand-generated escape did not work when I tried a few minutes ago.
> 
> Instead, I've used ^[ in vi for many years (note open bracket, not close
> like in Jim's mail) - unlike the ESC key, I can hit it without moving my
> hand out of home position.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work well on many European keyboard layouts.
At least in Swedish/Finnish and German layouts, you have to press 
<Ctrl>+<RightAlt>+<8>, because '[' does not have its own key.

	Arnd <><