Why must typing the escape key delete all the text one has typed into the window on SDMB? At least, this is what it seems to always do.
This is unfortunate because in Lotus Notes, which is among other things a common database and email posting tool, one hits the escape key to submit one’s message. So I, no doubt like other users of Notes, am in the habit of hitting escape after typing everything in.
Perhaps I should say, “after typing everything in the first time”.
Is this escape key behavior something that the Teeming Millions, or indeed the SDMB staff, could change?
Really? Yep, it still does it to me here at work - Internet Explorer 5.00 on Win2000. It also happens on my WinXP machine at home. I’ll have to try Netscape at home (don’t have it here).
esc does delete all the text on my system - Win98, IE6. As the OP noted, it only does this on initial entry. Once I’ve previewed the reply, esc has no effect on the text.
If this happens, you should try ctl-z (undo). On my system (and I should think all Windows systems), this restores the text.
Looks like it’s an IE/Win thing, since Opera and Firebird (yes, it’s still Firebird, haven’t updated my work machine in a while) don’t appear to do this. I see this as a positive thing: If the spyware and the viruses and the broken standards support weren’t enough to get people to switch away from Explorer, maybe deleting their SDMB entries will
Why in the world would anyone, especially a big player like Lotus Notes, use the “escape” key to submit a message? What’s wrong with the good old “enter” key? Ever since the dawn of time (or at least the PC keyboard), “escape” has always been used for “get me out of here now, I screwed up!”
