Blink: Allowing to map „^" as ESC (Germany keyboard layout)

[rverton]

It would be really nice if we could also use the „^"-key as an ESC key. This key is on the same position on the german keyboard as the backquote key for the English keyboard layout.

I‘m reposting this as an issue because I don’t know if this is getting attention in the closed PR.

_Originally posted by @rverton in https://github.com/blinksh/blink/pull/619#issuecomment-443507442_

[vorband]

this would be greatly appreciated. 👍🏻

[j4mie]

And similarly on the UK 2018 version the top-left key is this:

It would be great if that could be Escape! 😄

[vorband]

maybe it would make sense to have a custom config option which allows the user to enter a certain character which is then mapped to esc?
I guess apple has several keyboard layouts floating around...

[yury]

Ref #694 here too

[darthdeus]

@j4mie Actually I think the UK layout is the same as the Czech one I posted in #694. Not that it's bad (actually it's good for me, since I'm probably the only person with a Czech layout who cares about this hehe), just pointing it out since I found it interesting :)

[vorband]

@yury: any chance of implementing this? Using caps lock as esc has some quirks, as it sets the caps lock status globally, so every time I end up with CAPITALS WHENEVER I SWITCH BACK FROM BLINK TO ANOTHER APP:::: (scnr) ;)

[yury]

Hi @vorband.
It is on the list.

cmd+. also works as esc. And it is iOS system wide shortcut for ESC. May be it could work for you for now.

[vorband]

@yury: Thank you, this works for now. I did not know this was a system wide shortcut. I will try to remember this now! 👍
However, it would be great if the user could choose his “esc” character, so any keyboard could be used, regardless of the local layout.

[perelin]

+1 for custom ESC

[shaps80]

Hi @vorband.
It is on the list.

cmd+. also works as esc. And it is iOS system wide shortcut for ESC. May be it could work for you for now.

I did know about this but there a lot of scenarios where it doesn’t work and is generally less accessible/learnable.

I +1 for a custom key as I also have the UK keyboard with a ‘§’ which I NEVER use. 😬😬