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Settings/mode dialogs now require a second Escape press to close, with on-screen prompt

Settings dialogs now need Escape pressed twice to close, with an on-screen hint

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What

Several settings dialogs, including the mode picker, sandbox settings, and the cloud-session confirmation panel, no longer close on a single press of Escape. Instead they show a "Press [key] again to close" (or "cancel") prompt, and require pressing the key a second time to actually dismiss the panel.

Why

This prevents accidentally closing these panels with a single stray Escape press, at the cost of needing an extra keypress to close them intentionally.

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Names in the bundleEscape
Since it was published

The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up Escape, on Customize keyboard shortcuts. | `chat:cancel` | Escape | Cancel current input | keybindings see the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up Escape, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.

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