React Native Touchbar
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React Native Touchbar
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Re: React Native Touchbar
#2Pretty cool.
Particularly the "esc", "esc", "courage" buttons!
Re: React Native Touchbar
#3lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go back).
Re: React Native Touchbar
#4lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
I and most everybody I know use caps lock remapped to Escape. It gets rid of the annoying caps lock key, is easier to press, and solves the missing escape key problem!
Re: React Native Touchbar
#5lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
This is an argument that the TouchBar should not be considered a deterrent for vim users since they shouldn't reach up to that row in the first place.
Also, this seems to be a generic complaint about the TouchBar as a feature of MacBooks Pro, which has been discussed at great length in threads about the feature, and not relevant to this post, which is about adding TouchBar support to React Native apps.
Re: React Native Touchbar
#6lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
Some of us use ctrl-[ rather than escape, since you don't need to lift your hand. But a significant number of people still use ESC.
Re: React Native Touchbar
#7lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
I use vim for quick edits only, when I'm on a shell doing some config or authoring a commit etc. Esc felt weird for a day or so then my hand just adopted to the touch esc key, not that bad. Might be a lot harder for a hardcore user though.
Re: React Native Touchbar
#8I love the way any interface can be describe with react components these days, the future is quite bright :).
Re: React Native Touchbar
#9lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
I can't depend on custom key mappings if I'm sshing into servers.
Re: React Native Touchbar
#10lol is anyone really gonna use vim with the touchbar's escape key? Reaching up there with a physical keyboard is bad enough that I always remap caps lock to emit escape on tap (and control on hold). I can't imagine any vim power user being attracted to this new touch bar thing. In fact this MBPro release was the tipping point for me switching away from using a Mac to using Linux on a Thinkpad (and I will never go bac…
I might. Otherwise I'll remap Caps lock to Esc, or use the other shortcut.
And for me, the touch bar is one of the coolest things I've seen on a laptop in a long time. It has a huge potential, and is going to be much more useful to me than those keys were, as I never really used them.