Escape key to cancel out of edit node dialog

Core Development Feature Requests
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Hi there, when working with old or 3rd party flows, I usually open each node have a look and click cancel.
Pressing escape to cancel out would be much quicker and more use friendly.

Cheers,

Chris

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Yes, that is one of the things I like least about the Editor to be honest. Escape is so baked into most applications that it is very much in muscle memory.

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Interestingly Esc works to get out of the Import dialog.
Just as well that it does too because when you import a flow from the forum, "Error: Not a valid JSON array" [sometimes] covers up the Cancel button.

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If you check the keyboard shortcuts settings you'll find that the default keyboard shortcut for cancelling the edit dialog is set to Ctrl-Escape (or Cmd-Escape on Mac). We used to close on Escape, but we got complaints that it was too easy (because of muscle memory) to discard changes accidentally.

Following a recent thread on this very same subject, we discovered an issue that prevented user from changing that default to be just Escape. That has been fixed in 3.1.

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Thank you Nick and everyone. I will wait for release 3.1 and set the keyboard shortcut to Escape.

Burger > Keyboard Shortcuts > Cancel Edit Tray > set to Escape

Cheers,

Chris

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