You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Terminal UIArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.234,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Escape used to clear the current text selection and be swallowed by the scroll view. It now falls through to whatever else handles Escape, and the same exemption covers page up, page down, Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End and shifted or modified arrow keys.
Details
Ordinary typing still clears the selection, as does the selection:clear binding.
Evidence
selection:clear
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded the selection:clear keybinding action, so a key can be bound to clear an in-app text selection; also works in the agents view
