Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!egr
From: egr@contact.uucp (Gordan Palameta)
Subject: Position of the ESC key (was Re: Standard keyboard)
Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada.
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 91 01:53:22 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.015322.14213@contact.uucp>
References: <742@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <87723@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1991Jan28.195647.21789@craycos.com>
Keywords: Is there one?

In <1991Jan28.195647.21789@craycos.com> pmk@craycos.com (Peter Klausler) writes:
>>
>>intended you to use (with the exception of DEL/ESC, which is in such a
>>fucking brain-damaged position...right next to the left shift key. If
>>you like it there, good for you. I don't-I've used close to 20
>>keyboards, and the HP is the ONLY ONE with ESC there.)

Well, I got sick of having ESC next to Left Shift or on F12 on various
different keyboards, and finally got into the habit of typing  Control-[
(control open square bracket), which is in fact the ASCII code for ESC.

It can be touch-typed, and it's standard on every keyboard I've tried.
Try it, you'll like it...