[listrophy]

"One downside I found was that the Ctrl-[ combo seems to back up the cursor one character, which can be annoying."

So, technically you could just flutter the pedal to move the cursor left? :)

[mathiasx]

Yes.

It's not just Ctrl-[ that does this, Escape does it too. We just typically don't toggle between insert mode / ESC in vim fast enough and enough times to notice it. With the pedal it's quite easy to press and release it a bunch of times before you type anything.

[gizmo686]

Now that I notice that behavior it is really weird. Anyway, if that is a problem/annoyance for you, then you could try switching to insert-mode by using append ('a') instead, which will bump the cursor up a character and counter ESC bumping you down one.

[tiziano88]

workaround: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295410/prevent-cursor-fr...