<story><title>The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/08/the-life-and-death-of-the-touch-bar-revisiting-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>Do either of you use vim?</text></item><item><author>na85</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s interesting because I expected to hate mine but am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had the touch bar malfunction, nor do I find it distracting or too bright at night, even on a lakeside dock in cottage country.&lt;p&gt;I agree, though, that occasionally I will switch the input language to French due accidentally hitting the the bar. It&amp;#x27;s too sensitive.&lt;p&gt;The biggest surprise for me, though, was that I don&amp;#x27;t miss the physical F keys nor Escape, even a little bit.</text></item><item><author>Finbarr</author><text>Just got a new MBP with touchbar and am finding it quite annoying for these reasons:&lt;p&gt;- there seems to be no way to dim it and it&amp;#x27;s way too bright in the dark.&lt;p&gt;- the context specific functions appearing and disappearing make it really eye catching and distracting. There also seems to be a slight lag before it updates with the latest context. (I ended up switching it to only show some small subset of default controls).&lt;p&gt;- I&amp;#x27;m hardly using it at all, but sometimes it just stops responding. Hitting the buttons doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything.&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s too easy to accidentally tap one of the buttons.&lt;p&gt;All in all I think it&amp;#x27;s a gimmick and I&amp;#x27;d much rather have a physical escape key.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justanotherbody</author><text>I use it, and have a mb with touch bar.&lt;p&gt;Using solely the laptop keyboard was fine. Transitioning between the laptop keyboard and an external was not.&lt;p&gt;I ended up adding a binding for &amp;quot;jk&amp;quot; to exit editing mode. Very pleased</text></comment>
<story><title>The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/08/the-life-and-death-of-the-touch-bar-revisiting-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>Do either of you use vim?</text></item><item><author>na85</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s interesting because I expected to hate mine but am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never had the touch bar malfunction, nor do I find it distracting or too bright at night, even on a lakeside dock in cottage country.&lt;p&gt;I agree, though, that occasionally I will switch the input language to French due accidentally hitting the the bar. It&amp;#x27;s too sensitive.&lt;p&gt;The biggest surprise for me, though, was that I don&amp;#x27;t miss the physical F keys nor Escape, even a little bit.</text></item><item><author>Finbarr</author><text>Just got a new MBP with touchbar and am finding it quite annoying for these reasons:&lt;p&gt;- there seems to be no way to dim it and it&amp;#x27;s way too bright in the dark.&lt;p&gt;- the context specific functions appearing and disappearing make it really eye catching and distracting. There also seems to be a slight lag before it updates with the latest context. (I ended up switching it to only show some small subset of default controls).&lt;p&gt;- I&amp;#x27;m hardly using it at all, but sometimes it just stops responding. Hitting the buttons doesn&amp;#x27;t do anything.&lt;p&gt;- it&amp;#x27;s too easy to accidentally tap one of the buttons.&lt;p&gt;All in all I think it&amp;#x27;s a gimmick and I&amp;#x27;d much rather have a physical escape key.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dobbs</author><text>I use Vim with a MBP Touchbar. A half decade or more ago I swapped caps lock and control, I then started using &amp;#x27;ctrl-[&amp;#x27; as escape. This is the actual escape code for the &amp;#x27;esc&amp;#x27; key. Super easy to press, just uses both pinkies, and it doesn&amp;#x27;t require stretching for the escape key.</text></comment>