[dfinninger]

I have “fd” set to return me to normal mode. I picked this up from Spacemacs, and I actually like it a lot. I even set it up in IntelliJ.

Now my capslock is Ctrl. I find that combo to be particularly effective for me.

[localhost]

A default vim mapping is CTRL+[ I use that a lot as it requires the smallest motion of my hands. The fd seems pretty cool as that's even a smaller change. How do you set that in your .vimrc?

[npo9]

I use to use “jk” for this. I stopped because several vim emulators, evil specifically, did not support this.

[smsx]

Evil does support this, I use it every day. (Or rather, evil-escape is a plug-in I use that makes this setup very simple)