Question

My habits of vi editing are causing me grief while editing twiki documents. Everytime I hit the Escape key, I lose all my edits. Is there a special key that will essentially perform an undo of this Escape operation.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 27 Feb 2004

Answer

Yes - hitting Ctrl/Z (undo) immediately after the ESC should retrieve your text. IE has multi-level undo so this should work even if you do ESC and then type something. Also, there's a JavaScript based patch at EscKeyInEditorDeletesText that will prevent this by blocking ESC.

-- RichardDonkin - 28 Feb 2004