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Photoshop: Pressing the Esc key to exit 'text mode' negates all the changes in the text box
Dear Adobe Gripe #17414
"Please figure something out so that i can exit 'text mode' in photoshop by pressing Esc. and not have it negate everything i just changed in the text box... thank you!"
"Please figure something out so that i can exit 'text mode' in photoshop by pressing Esc. and not have it negate everything i just changed in the text box... thank you!"
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JeffreyTranberry
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Instead, use Cmd/Ctrl + Return/Enter to accept the changes you've made and exit text editing mode.
Additionally, you can use Opt/Alt + Return/Enter to add a line break while in text edit mode.
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dmohr
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This is not the first time we have heard this complaint, both internally and externally. We've talked about it quite a bit. And, while I completely agree with Chris in principle, we have gotten this request too many times to ignore. As a result, we have heard your feedback and will be adjusting the behavior in the future accordingly.
Thanks,
David
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photoshop_faq
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#5756, #3027 & #8338
"Please make an keyboard shortcut to deselect the type tool, when typing in
the type tool. Right now you have to click on another tool in the palette
to get out of the type tool. Try doing this when the tool palette is
hidden, you must hit esc, the lose all your changes, then bring back the
palette, then select another tool."
"why can't you escape out of the text tool without negating everything you just did? You figured this out in your other apps."
"I need some sort of shortcut to select a new tool when a text box is active. Also, spacebar for Hand Selection tool doesn't work. Beat."
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JeffreyTranberry
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folletto
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http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
The reason for that behaviour is inconsistent. There are many reasons to remove that behaviour from Photoshop, and it doesn't seem that they are going to be weighted properly. I took the freedom to collect them from the numerous topics on the web and here:
1. Illustrator uses ESC to commit changes.
2. InDesign uses ESC to commit changes.
3. Basically: all the other apps in the CS suite use ESC as commit for that kind of interaction.
4. Cmd+Enter isn't a viable alternative, because it's WAY SLOWER, forcing users to use both hands or move them from the mouse/pen.
5. Photoshop is inheriting that from the time when that thing was modal: at the beginning of time it was a modal box. Now it isn't anymore, there's no reason to be inconsistent by providing a WYSIWYG visual experience paired with the keyboard commands of something that doesn't exist anymore.
http://0.tqn.com/d/graphicssoft/1/0/m...
6. There's already a standard behaviour for that, and it's called Undo.
7. Every other app existing on Mac uses "esc" as "get me out of edit mode" for that specific kind of interaction (i.e. Pixelmator, Acorn, Omnigraffle), not "erase changes" (either that, or nothing at all like Keynote). Photoshop is the *only* exception.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Pressing the Esc key to exit 'text mode' negates all the changes in the text box, should COMMIT instead.
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angelo_ferrera
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Thanks for listening.
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ben_dunkle_4927796
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ProDesignTools
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Kevin O'Connor: It would be great if we could make typography behavior as similar in PS to Illustrator and InDesign as possible. For example, In InDesign and in Illustrator, when you are typing, you can stop typing and get the selection arrow by hitting the Escape key.In Photoshop, when you are typing, and you want to end your typing, if you hit the Escape key, it DELETES what you typed.There is NO UNDO, and you have to do it over again.If you have spent 10 minutes carefully crafting a typographic element in Photoshop, kerning, adjusting the size and leading, and getting it perfect, and then you hit Escape, you then utter unprintable words.
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jens_nybacka
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8 years ago
Compare how often you:
A: make a textframe and then thinks "ARGH THIS IS TEXT BAD, MUST DESTROY IT"
B: ok I write text and then switch to another tool.
If it's A, USE CTRL+Z like the rest of the world! :)
Seriously, there are no valid reasons to change the function of ESC if you look at it from a usability perspective, pleease change it back or make at least a switch in settings.
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ben_dunkle_4927796
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Here, this simple:
http://cl.ly/image/3N403t1h3l23
CC would have been a perfect opp to add this; I"m way disappointed not seeing it.
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