Fzf: FZF not closing with <Esc>+<Another Key>

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TL;DR fzf does not close window when <Esc>+<Another Key> is pressed.

I mainly use fzf in neovim and I have noted that sometimes the closing of it locks up strangely. Today I did some investigating to why and I quickly noted that I sometimes double tap <Esc>. fzf seems to set <Esc> as some kind of leader key as keys pressed quickly after <Esc> puts it into some kind of state.

The expected behavior would be that <Esc> would exit fzf cleanly and straight-away just like <C-c> does.

[junegunn]

Escape character indeed works as alt modifier on terminal. i.e. escape + a is alt-a. However, fzf clearly isn't properly handling double escape characters and unnecessarily waits for more key strokes. I'll fix this.

[junegunn]

Fixed pushed to master. Let me know if you still see the issue.

[sQVe]

@junegunn Works now, made a huge workflow improvement for me - so thank you! :hugs:

Just a side-note, it it possible for fzf to take a config option that disables <Esc> as a modifier? I'm seeing a slight delay in closing the window compared to <C-c>. I'm really nitpicking now but it would be nice if it was possible.

[junegunn]

Reducing ESC delay can make fzf unable to read keys with ALT modifier on some terminals. Since you use Neovim, consider setting up a terminal mapping for fzf buffer.

autocmd! FileType fzf tnoremap <buffer> <esc> <c-c>

[sQVe]

@junegunn Ahhh :yum:, that did the trick! Yet again thank you - and thank you for creating such a indispensable tool.

[madox2]

Using the code above autocmd! FileType fzf tnoremap <buffer> <esc> <c-c> disabled me to use <shift> + <tab> for selecting multiple results. I have found another workaround that works also in this case:

set ttimeoutlen=0