issue with evil-escape in Doom on Termux

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planted: 31/10/2024last tended: 31/05/2026

I couldn't seem to get evil-escape to work in Doom on Termux.

I have become very used to evil-escape in spacemacs on desktop. It simply let's you use a two character keychord to escape from insert mode to normal mode.

Sounds so simple as to be almost pointless, but when it's gone I really miss it. (Such as when using vi on a server…)

Additionally, on Termux, the escape key is a big stretch away when one handed. So evil-escape would be handy to reduce how much need to do that stretch.

So, a few things:

  • Doom seems to by default rebind evil-escape from fd to jk, so for a little while I was trying the wrong sequence
  • Even with the right sequence, the speed at which you have to press it is just not possible one handed in Emacs in Termux, for me at least

So I customised:

  • evil-escape-key-sequence to jj
  • evil-escape-delay to 0.25

This now works for me.

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