As using vim involves switching between command and insert mode a lot, you end up reaching for the Escape key often—too often for my fingers.

You change your Escape key for Caps Lock. I was using C-c for the Escape key, which is a default alternative in vim. C-[ appears to be a old time short-cut, too.

But they all suffer from the same problems: moving your fingers away from the home row, and holding down the Ctl key in two of the approaches. And I hate doing both those things.

I stumbled across this excellent solution on a forum recently though:

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Soft word wrap seems like a black art judging by Google’s search results, especially as many of the solutions are for previous version of Vim.  I finally came across the solution via vim’s homepage.  And this solution automatically re-soft wraps the text when you insert some text in an existing line, thankfully.  There are few more tweaks needed, however.

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