vim editing mode, can't press escape.

[dessalines]

When pressing escape in vim edit mode, it follows the browser escape. How do I exit mode?

[Yukaii]

Hi @dessalines , do you have any browser vim extension installed? It might be one reason that causes this.

[dessalines]

Nope, just regular old firefox, which treats the escape key as losing focus from the browser window.

[thor314]

Echoing this bug, using flatpak firefox on PopOS.

Couldn't use vim-mode as escape goes to browser escape. Disabled Vimium-C extension for the page, escape now works as expected. Might be nice to have Ctrl-C also go to escape, though I suspect that might significantly increase the complexity of your vim-bindings feature if allowing users to customize their hackmd vim bindings.

[LinusSch]

Echo: this bug also occurs on Vivaldi Flatpak version, no extensions installed, with single key shortcuts disabled.

[LinusSch]

Workaround

From Vim Tips Wiki - Avoid the escape key we learn several tricks that do not help on hackmd.io (Ctrl+c, Alt in the terminal) but one thing that does:

:imap jj <Esc>

Substitute jj for a quick sequence that you do not have to type in your language. Note that hackmd.io does have :imap, but not :inoremap.