# More places where Escape does not do what you expect (and other keyboard issues)

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/more-places-where-escape-does-not-do-what-you-expect-and-other-keyboard-issues/5236>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [October 2, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/more-places-where-escape-does-not-do-what-you-expect-and-other-keyboard-issues/5236 "2023-10-02T16:32:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/more-places-where-escape-does-not-do-what-you-expect-and-other-keyboard-issues/5236/1 "2023-10-02T16:32:50Z")

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- In entity view, when editing “Show/Hide Fields”, typing allows you to filter the list of fields.
- Hitting `Esc` should close this popup, but instead **the entire Panel is closed.**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/8/8f0c2b6a63817959b8be562a58a23289e39e715b.png)

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## Another one:

- Entity View
- Configure Fields
- Edit an existing Button
- Update the Button Name
- Hit Enter to accept changes
- `Esc` now does nothing (I was expecting it to close the “Configure Fields” popup)

## Another one:

- DB setup screen
- Click the DB icon to select icon & color of DB
- `Esc` does nothing, regardless of where the focus is (I was expecting it to close the popup or cancel the icon search)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/c/c8daa4918506e7053da0c55944c245ef1bf323ad.png)

## Another:

- From just about anywhere, hitting `Esc` to bring up global Search:
- Now the keyboard focus is nowhere – hitting `Esc` again will cancel the search, but you can’t type anything else
- When you use `Ctrl+K` instead of `Esc` to bring up global Search, the keyboard focus is in the search box where you expect it

## Another:

- Rich Text
- Type `<<` to create an embedded view
- After you click the “What” button, `Esc` will no longer cancel the popup  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/9/97fb9a8b36c84e580ea9c845d93031f9016763f5.png)

## Another:

- Rich Text
- Select some text and hit `Ctrl+K` to make it a link
- Hit `Esc` to close the link popup
- The Global Search menu comes up
- I expected the Link popup to close

## Keyboard focus is nowhere:

_I guess I will add other keyboard issues here, instead of creating dozens of new posts:_

- In a table/grid/etc view that displays a Rich Text field
- Clicking a RT field’s ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/7/7099d1b5bdd2ce781c7c8f3bb7ffc6ce3fdd6ab3.png) icon opens the Rich Text in a panel to the right for editing 😀
- but the keyboard focus is nowhere 🙄 so you have to use the mouse before you can actually start editing
- It would make sense if the keyboard focus was in the just-opened Rich Text

> ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f3046e45f91e783f7143fc61c5dbc3736ebb2cb7.png)

## `Ctrl+E` doesn’t always work in Rich Text

- Select text then hit `Ctrl+E` to create an entity
- If your selection includes some fields (e.g. an @mention) then `Ctrl+E` opens the browser search bar instead 😂 (Chrome on Windows)

## Rich Text: Weird Ctrl+cursor behaviour around fields

- If a word is followed by a field (e.g. @mention) and your cursor is at the _beginning_ of the word, you would expect `Ctrl+Right cursor` to move the cursor to the _beginning_ of the field that follows the word…
- But instead it moves to the _end_ of the field (which would be expected from hitting `Ctrl+Right` **twice** )

## Rich Text: `Esc` does not close popup

- After using `Ctrl+E` to open the “Inline Create Entity” popup, `Esc` does not close the popup (must reach for the mouse again 🙄)

## After editing entity name in entity view, `Esc` does not close panel

- You must first click somewhere else in the panel before `Esc` will close the panel
- The same is true after editing some (not all) fields in entity view (e.g. numeric and text fields), or after hiding a field, etc.

## Inbox: `Esc` does nothing

Immediately after opening Inbox, `Esc` will close it (as expected). But after you click anything in Inbox (e.g. Actions menu), `Esc` no longer does anything.  
I expected it to 1) close the Actions menu, 2) Close Inbox.

E.g., after selecting `Actions | Move All to Done`, `Esc` does nothing; I expected it to close the Inbox, which it will do only if I first click on the Inbox pane.

## View Renaming: `Esc` opens global search

When typing the name of a view, `Esc` does not cancel/end the renaming - instead it opens global search.