Tdesktop: Pressing Esc when replying should cancel the reply instead of closing the chat

Created on 15 May 2016 · 6Comments · Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Steps to reproduce

Right-click a chat message
Select Reply
Press Escape key

Expected behaviour

Reply should be cancelled (similarly to when message is edited).

Actual behaviour

Chat is closed.

Version of Telegram Desktop: 0.9.48, it has been like this since I remember.

Related issues: #1500

enhancement stale

Source

jtojnar

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Most helpful comment

@lindhe You can use Alt-(Up|Down) or Ctrl-(Shift-)?Tab even without pressing the Escape key.

Either way, you will still be able to close chat, it will just cancel a reply first, if you started writing one. Implementing this will enable us to cancel the reply using keyboard only (which is currently impossible AFAIK) and will make the behaviour of the application more consistent.

jtojnar on 31 May 2016

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I'd really not like to see that. I Esc all the time to use Alt+[Down/UP] to move between conversations. I'd hate to have to plug in a mouse just to move between conversations.

lindhe on 31 May 2016

@lindhe You can use Alt-(Up|Down) or Ctrl-(Shift-)?Tab even without pressing the Escape key.

jtojnar on 31 May 2016

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Ah, you are right! I misremembered. It's getting to the search field that I do using Esc. Any suggestion for that?

(Puh, I can breath out now)

lindhe on 31 May 2016

@lindhe you can jump between the message field and the search field using (Shift-)?Tab (or Ctrl-F if searching the current chat is enough).

jtojnar on 31 May 2016

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Can we get this looked into more now?

We have up to edit, and escape to cancel editing.

We have ctrl+up/down for replies, so it makes sense to have escape for cancelling replies, too.

(Sure, we can hit ctrl+down a bunch to cancel a reply, but if escape is being used to cancel stuff, it should _consistently_ be used to cancel stuff).

I have to say that keyboard nav in telegram is getting better and it's great, but it could still do with a bit of improvement. The hotkeys to reply were very nice.

PandorasFox on 5 Jan 2018

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