Let the Escape key cancel completion popups#1555
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There is some lag as compared to canceling with control-g, due to the VT-100 limitation of representing Alt- keypresses as Escape- sequences.
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Verified escape key exits completions after a brief delay
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There is some lag as compared to canceling with control-g, due to the VT-100 limitation of representing Alt- keypresses as Escape- sequences.
Mentioned in #1009.
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changelog.mdfile.AUTHORSfile (or it's already there).