How to prevent ESC from closing frames

How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[abdo.haji.ali]

Greetings,

Sometimes I press ESC one too many times and Emacs closes all my open frames.

How can I prevent this behaviour?
Thanks

Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[Dale Snell]

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Sometimes I press ESC one too many times and Emacs closes all my open
> frames.
> 
> How can I prevent this behaviour?
> Thanks

I just tried that here and I do not get this behavior (Emacs
24.3.1).  It sounds like a configuration problem.  Does Emacs do
this if you start it as "emacs -Q"?

--Dale

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Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[abdo.haji.ali]

Yes, emacs -Q has the same behaviour

I wasn't very clear though. The frames close when pressing ESC three times in a row.
It's a habit of mine that is proving to be very inconvenient

Thanks

Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[sokobania]

Le jeudi 28 août 2014 09:13:29 UTC+2, abdo.h...@gmail.com a écrit :
> Yes, emacs -Q has the same behaviour
> 
> I wasn't very clear though. The frames close when pressing ESC three times in a row.
> It's a habit of mine that is proving to be very inconvenient

What happens when you type:
  C-h k ESC ESC ESC

Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[Dale Snell]

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:13:29 -0700 (PDT)
abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com wrote:

> Yes, emacs -Q has the same behaviour
> 
> I wasn't very clear though. The frames close when pressing ESC three
> times in a row. It's a habit of mine that is proving to be very
> inconvenient

I wasn't very clear, either.  I tried three ESCs in a row, and all I
got was "ESC ESC" in the minibuffer, and the third one cleared it.

Perhaps your window manager is watching for three ESCs in a row, and
killing whatever window that sequence occurs in?  Sounds unlikely, I
know, but since "emacs -Q" fails, the problem most likely lies
elsewhere.  You might want to check your WM/DE settings to see if
there's a triple-ESC keyboard shortcut somewhere.

--Dale

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Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, sokobania@gmail.com wrote:

> Le jeudi 28 août 2014 09:13:29 UTC+2, abdo.h...@gmail.com a écrit :
>> Yes, emacs -Q has the same behaviour
>>
>> I wasn't very clear though. The frames close when pressing ESC three times in a row.
>> It's a habit of mine that is proving to be very inconvenient
>
> What happens when you type:
>  C-h k ESC ESC ESC

ESC ESC ESC (translated from <escape> <escape> <escape>) runs the
command keyboard-escape-quit, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
function in `simple.el'.

It is bound to M-ESC ESC.

(keyboard-escape-quit)

-- 
Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>

Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:13 PM,  <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, emacs -Q has the same behaviour
>
> I wasn't very clear though. The frames close when pressing ESC three times in a row.
> It's a habit of mine that is proving to be very inconvenient

You use the term “frame” but actually mean Emacs windows, that’s why
some other replies misunderstand you.


C-h k ESC ESC ESC

```
ESC ESC ESC (translated from <escape> <escape> <escape>) runs the
command keyboard-escape-quit, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
function in `simple.el'.

It is bound to M-ESC ESC.

(keyboard-escape-quit)

Exit the current "mode" (in a generalized sense of the word).
This command can exit an interactive command such as `query-replace',
can clear out a prefix argument or a region,
can get out of the minibuffer or other recursive edit,
cancel the use of the current buffer (for special-purpose buffers),
**or go back to just one window (by deleting all but the selected window).**
```


I have looked at the source of this function and it does not check any
variables that could be used to control its features. So, no, you
can’t, at least not directly.

What you can do is to instead pick up the habit of pressing C-g to
cancel whatever you are doing, C-M-c to get out of recursive edit, and
the key you usually use to kill buffers for special-purpose buffers
too.

Or you can copy the source of keyboard-escape-quit, rename it to your
own name, delete the alternative that deals with deleting windows, and
bind your version to ESC ESC ESC.

Re: How to prevent ESC from closing frames

[sokobania.01]

Le vendredi 29 août 2014 05:47:04 UTC+2, Yuri Khan a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:13 PM,  abdo.haji.ali wrote:
> ESC ESC ESC (translated from <escape> <escape> <escape>) runs the
> command keyboard-escape-quit, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
> function in `simple.el'.
> 
> It is bound to M-ESC ESC.
> 
> (keyboard-escape-quit)
> 
> Exit the current "mode" (in a generalized sense of the word).
> This command can exit an interactive command such as `query-replace',
> can clear out a prefix argument or a region,
> can get out of the minibuffer or other recursive edit,
> cancel the use of the current buffer (for special-purpose buffers),
> **or go back to just one window (by deleting all but the selected window).**
> 
> I have looked at the source of this function and it does not check any
> variables that could be used to control its features. So, no, you
> can't, at least not directly.

Well, the code of keyboard-escape-quit tests the variable buffer-quit-function.

So something like the following could work... 
(while at least keeping some of keyboard-escape-quit functionalities):

(setq-default buffer-quit-function
 #'(lambda () (message "Are you trying to quit?")))

Or you might rebind ESC-ESC-ESC like this:

(define-key global-map "\e\e\e"
 #'(lambda () (interactive) (message "Are you trying to quit?")))