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I had the same problem. A bit of snooping turned up the default Vintage keybindings for OSX do behave this way. So I copied them into my user key bindings file. Bingo!


The pertinent lines are right at the beginning of Sublime Text 2/Pristine Packages/Vintage.sublime-package. Open it in a text editor other than Sublime and copy them.

Oh, and for Ctrl-[, the docs note that that can be turned on with

"vintage_ctrl_keys": true 

in your user settings file. Tested, works for me.