diff --git a/home-manager/neovim/default.nix b/home-manager/neovim/default.nix
index 390e874..f679253 100644
--- a/home-manager/neovim/default.nix
+++ b/home-manager/neovim/default.nix
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
         project-nvim
         auto-session
 
+        # escape handling 
+        better-escape-nvim
+
         nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars
         markdown-preview-nvim # use({ "iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim", run = ":call mkdp#util#install()" })
         toggleterm-nvim
diff --git a/home-manager/neovim/keymaps.lua b/home-manager/neovim/keymaps.lua
index 31b23cc..721631d 100644
--- a/home-manager/neovim/keymaps.lua
+++ b/home-manager/neovim/keymaps.lua
@@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ nnoremap("gq", ":Bdelete<CR>")
 
 -- toggle search highlighting
 vim.cmd('nnoremap <expr> * v:hlsearch ? ":nohlsearch<cr>" : "*"')
+
+-- insert-map jj/jk to escape
+require("better_escape").setup()