[suggestion] Cancel modal operations by pression ESC #78

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1. arybczak commented on Oct 29, 2015

   

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   You can already do that with Ctrl-C/Ctrl-G. AFAIR I tried to make ESC also work, but readline didn't want to cooperate with me.
2. trygveaa commented on Oct 29, 2015

   

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   Ctrl-C/Ctrl-G doesn't seem to work for me. Nothing happens. (version 0.6.7)
3. ttohin commented on Oct 29, 2015

   

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   +1
4. arybczak commented on Oct 29, 2015

   

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   It's in 0.7.x.
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   closed this as completedon Nov 11, 2015
6. doronbehar commented on May 13, 2017

   

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   Hello @arybczak,
   I was wondering, have you triedever since this issue was closed to recheck this problem?
7. arybczak commented on May 14, 2017

   

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   I didn't. The issue is that readline can't seem to be able to recognise ESC while also be able to process special keys such as arrows. You're welcome to try making it do that though.
8. matt-snider commented on Nov 5, 2018

   

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   I tried doing this:

   def_key "escape"
       abort_prompt
   

   but I see this code and realize it's not exposed in actions.h so it won't work. Is there any other way of doing it? Esc is really intuitive from other programs (e.g. vim)
9. mrusme commented on Sep 10, 2022

   

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   This still doesn't seem to be working out of the box unfortunately.

   Pressing ctrl+s in a playlist to open the sort dialog and then pressing escape doesn't lead to it being dismissed. Presseing g to open the "Position to go" prompt and then pressing escape doesn't do anything, leaving one stuck in the prompt.

   Imho this issue needs to be re-opened as user experience is really bad in this regard. Generally it should imho be possible to dismiss any prompt/popup/... by default, using the escape key.
10. kohane27 commented on Feb 6, 2024

    

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    I've found a workaround with xremap. We can map jk to Ctrl-C.

    We need --class dropdown_right for xremap to identify this specific terminal window:

    kitty --class dropdown_right zsh -i -c "ncmpcpp".

    Then we can put the following in ~/.config/xremap/config.yml:

    keymap:
      - name: ncmpcpp
        application:
          only: [dropdown_right]
        remap:
          J:
            remap:
              K: C-c
            timeout_key: KEY_J
            timeout_millis: 40

    Restart your xremap for it to take effect. Cheers!