A fair amount of current software uses Esc as a "bail out". For
example, it causes Firefox to abandon a stalled attempt to load a page.
Jim Gettys wrote:
Traditionally, escape has been used by many keyboard based applications
(e.g. vi, emacs), but its use is much more rare in recent applications.
We are giving thought to whether we really need an escape key: we have
need for a number of keys not typically found on current keyboards.
Here's the question: can anyone identify any application which breaks if
escape is generated by ^] rather than pressing the key labeled "esc" on
their keyboard?
Opinions?
- Jim
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