Escape The Little Mouse

by Mike Levin

Saturday, May 21, 2022

I am okay.
This is good.
I’m getting a handle on this.
I can see I leave myself in insert mode.
I can see hitting esc is not good right now.
While I’m relaxing I can stay in insert mode.
Yeah. I got it. That’s something I never noticed before.
Escape is very much a mode change… a transition. Habit.
But I don’t need to keep hitting Esc… even though that is my habit.
I can stay in insert mode and capture a thing or two about my…

What that?
What is that makes this different?
I think it has something to do with the flow.
Yeah. No mouse is a good start. But the Esc key is like the little mouse.
But I control that little mouse like I control my state.

 Mike Levin, 2022