[OLPC-devel] Escape keys and keyboards.....

[Mitch Bradley]

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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