[kaizensoze]

I've always found Ctrl-[ to be more intuitive instead of ESC for vim. Strangely enough I have no idea where I saw that Ctrl-[ works as an alternative and I don't see any reference to it in my vimrc so it should work out of the box. Having to move your left hand all the way over to esc is just slow and cumbersome, meanwhile [ is just right there.

[city41]

^[ is what ESC sends to a terminal, so CTRL-[ and ESC are equivalent.

[Tom1971]

I tried that at the Apple Store.

It's an option.

But there are so many programs that require ESC, so it's only a half-way solution.