<story><title>Vim&apos;s 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a-b</author><text>Fun fact about vim:&lt;p&gt;When vi was originally designed the most popular keyboard was ADM-3A and later IBM XT &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;IBM_PC_keyboard#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:IBM_Model_F_XT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;IBM_PC_keyboard#&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;File:IB...&lt;/a&gt;  The layout of this keyboard has Control on the place where modern keyboards have a CapsLock key. Naturally that&amp;#x27;s why vi and vim was meant to use CTRL-[ to exit to the normal mode.&lt;p&gt;25 years later Apple introduced ToughBar and made ESC key virtual. As result remapped CapsLock-[ make sense again ;)&lt;p&gt;edit: Add ADM-3A keyboard</text></comment>
<story><title>Vim&apos;s 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8</title><url>https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a-b</author><text>Vim is great, but hard out of box. That&amp;#x27;s why I&amp;#x27;d like to mention couple community distributions to make it even better:&lt;p&gt;• &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vim.spf13.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vim.spf13.com&lt;/a&gt; this distribution is remarkable! Extremely well documented vimrc file is a great source of knowlege by itself &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spf13&amp;#x2F;spf13-vim&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;3.0&amp;#x2F;.vimrc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spf13&amp;#x2F;spf13-vim&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;3.0&amp;#x2F;.vimrc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;• &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;carlhuda&amp;#x2F;janus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;carlhuda&amp;#x2F;janus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, it worth to mention&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spacemacs.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;spacemacs.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;neovim.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;neovim.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>