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Alternative to the escape key in Vim

Sometimes you need to escape, and you can't use the esc key. Whether its missing, on a touch bar, or you simply don't want to stretch your fingers away from home row, it's nice to have another option.

In Vim, Ctrl+[ sends an escape character, equivalent to pressing the escape key.

Now you can easily get back to normal mode.

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