> C-[, which cannot be pressed e.g. on QWERTZ layouts because the [ character requires AltGr.
So the user just presses Ctrl-AltGr-[, what's the problem? And changing keyboard layouts or keybinds, isn't something that someone using vim should have a lot of trouble with anyway.
> It's bad enough that a text editor that ignores the past few decades of UX research is still in widespread use,
Maybe that's because a lot of people using it decided that the "decades of UX research" produced precious little of worth. That's because alot of the "research" done in areas that are, by their nature, heavily opinionated, produces, what a surprise, mostly opinions.
And when we take a giant pile of opinions, and pile them all on top of one another, well...
...that's how we ended up in a world where, somehow, people now actually have to wait for an application to open, like they did in the early 90s, on machines that are orders of magnitude more powerful. Where webpages load 20MiB of giant hero images, useless framework code and spyware, to display 4 lines of text. Where applications get more "modern" and "streamlined" by somehow lowering information density, losing functionality and getting less self-explanatory.
So the user just presses Ctrl-AltGr-[, what's the problem? And changing keyboard layouts or keybinds, isn't something that someone using vim should have a lot of trouble with anyway.
> It's bad enough that a text editor that ignores the past few decades of UX research is still in widespread use,
Maybe that's because a lot of people using it decided that the "decades of UX research" produced precious little of worth. That's because alot of the "research" done in areas that are, by their nature, heavily opinionated, produces, what a surprise, mostly opinions.
And when we take a giant pile of opinions, and pile them all on top of one another, well...
...that's how we ended up in a world where, somehow, people now actually have to wait for an application to open, like they did in the early 90s, on machines that are orders of magnitude more powerful. Where webpages load 20MiB of giant hero images, useless framework code and spyware, to display 4 lines of text. Where applications get more "modern" and "streamlined" by somehow lowering information density, losing functionality and getting less self-explanatory.