ESC Would Exit Full Screen

ProudBenzene
For keyboard operators (like me), after finishing writing an annotated note, I used to use the ESC key to exit the current edit and continue browsing the paper.

But under macOS, the ESC shortcut is an overlap of two functions: exiting the current annotated note editing, and exiting full-screen mode. This means that if I'm reading a paper in full-screen mode and I'm ready to exit annotation editing, pressing ESC at that moment will not only exit annotation editing, but also full-screen mode, the latter of which I don't want to see, and which would cause a lot of cumbersome operations for me.

Therefore, I hope that Zotero can remove the association between ESC and exiting full screen, and use a shortcut other than ESC to trigger the "Exit Full Screen" function.
  • dstillman
    edited July 29, 2024
    I doubt we can do that, but we could perhaps make Cmd-Return equivalent to Esc for exiting an annotation and returning focus to the page.
  • ProudBenzene
    Hello, I just tried cmd-return, but It seemed that I didn't succeeded in exiting an annotation.

    What's more, as far as I know, for some apps, such as Obsidian and VSCode, It is possible to press ESC without exiting full screen. I think maybe it's okay for Zotero, too?
  • dstillman
    I'm suggesting that we could change Cmd-Return to work, not that it does now.

    But we can look into whether we can intercept Esc.
  • ProudBenzene
    I see. My suggestion is that we could make pressing ESC once to exit an annotation, and pressing ESC twice to exit fullscreen. In my opinion, this is more intuitive.

    Regardless of the final modification, I hope the Zotero officials can solve this shortcut key conflict problem soon!
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