The Escape key (ESC) is legendary in vim, Emacs’s arch-rival. It’s so commonly used (mostly to switch back to normal mode and interrupt commands in progress) that you’ll find many articles on where to remap it (e.g. to Caps Lock), and there are also many keyboards that place ESC where ~ normally is, to make it more accessible.1 In Emacs-land, however, we never really speak about ESC… Why so? Well, we use C-g to interrupt commands, and we obviously don’t have modal editing, at least ...
