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 @jbowen @NanoRaptor Seeing this statement feels weird owning a touch bar with an ESC key.  @connie @NanoRaptor I learned in other replies that later versions brought the ESC key back @jbowen @NanoRaptor Explains why I have an enjoyable experience using it. Seems like most people tried the first version years ago, and it soured their experience.  @jbowen The last generation of touchbar at least had a physical esc key, but yeah the rest of it was still pretty awful.  @jbowen A lot of vim users have remapped the Caps Lock key to Esc. (Similarly, a lot of emacs users map it to Ctrl.) Honestly easier to use that way in the first place! @varx The muscle memory for the location of the ESC is just so deeply ingrained at this point. I can't imagine doing that myself.   @NanoRaptor ever since youโve first posted this picture iโve been thinking about it on and off, andโฆ itโs so รฆsthetically pleasing for me that I really, really would like for this to be true  @NanoRaptor Seriously though, it's a shame basilisk or something like it never got updated to support this use of the control strip.   @NanoRaptor Ah! This explains why they didnโt just reuse the name Control Strip.  @marcintosh the hardware controls section of the Touch Bar (on the right) is officially called the Control Strip, IIRC!    @NanoRaptor there has to be a "minimized" version of the control strip in the touch bar, and it has to make the Classic noise when you expand it  @NanoRaptor It is great to see, decentralised platforms now becoming the shining examples. This is wonderful news.  @NanoRaptor If the Touch Bar looked like that I might have warmed to it purely out of nostalgia. @NanoRaptor I switched to MacBook M1, and while it is an incredible machine, I miss the touchbar every day. I had also highly customized rhe touchbar on my old Mac, of course. @NanoRaptor @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social |
@NanoRaptor I wouldn't buy an Apple product to begin with, but the touch bar and no physical ESC key always felt openly hostile to vi/vim users.