Community Suggestion: Improve the ESC/Escape key management
Improve the ESC/Escape key management
User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by Patrick-M
accepted
editor -search -escape
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Current situation (in new editor) : when making a "search", a small editor for searching appears. Then, the most intuitive thing to remove it is to strike the "escape" key. Often (not always, neither never), it will close everything, even the article itself.
Suggestion : prevent closing the article editor with the ESC key, or ensure that the esc key closes the "search" box.
Potential issue : what if several "search" boxes are opened in different text boxes? One solution = ESC key closes all opened search boxes (because lost of focus on latest text edition can be easy, especially when scrolling, ...).
How does this feature request address the current situation?
It will prevent losing the article editor context
What are other uses for this feature request?
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! This is now how it's supposed to work, so we'll make a note to fix it in the future. Thanks!
Current score
9/300 Votes · +1901 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by EstrabanNescora
on 2025-12-26 07:32 -
+300
by LittleRaider
on 2025-12-19 16:44 -
+300
by Arirthos
on 2025-12-14 22:55 -
+300
by Razhea
on 2025-12-07 19:09 -
+100
by Demongrey
on 2025-12-07 09:56 -
+300
by Mochimanoban
on 2025-12-07 09:48A really frustrating thing for me! I wish either the ESC button would just close the pop-up on top, and then the next one on top, etc., *or* it just won't close the article editor. Especially since if i press ESC and close the article editor, it takes like 5 seconds to even register, and then another few seconds just to open it again D:
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+100
by kitotog
on 2025-12-03 19:09I automatically hit esc when closing a comment mid article and it closes the entire article.
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+100
by Jupiter Melichios
on 2025-12-03 11:24 -
+1
by AuraGuard
on 2025-12-02 10:47 -
+300
by Patrick-M
on 2025-12-01 13:10
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