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.
Names in the bundleEscape
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.
Added since
A small documentation edit on All settings touched a line naming Escape after this was published.
Map two-key INSERT-mode sequences to Escape in [vim editor mode](/docs/en/interactive-mode#vim-editor-mode). Each key is exactly two printable characters typed in sequence, and `"<Esc>"` is the only supported target; Claude Code ignores ot…settings-reference see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up Escape, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.
| `chat:cancel` | Escape | Cancel current input |keybindings see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up Escape, on Customize keyboard shortcuts.