After autoformatter was triggered, pressing esc should make undo

[Reinmar]

It's natural to try to press Esc after something unwanted happened.

[fredck]

I've never heard or thought of Esc for such case? "Undo" sounds the right thing for me.

[Reinmar]

I'm always using Esc. Definitely in GDocs and AFAIR in MSWord as well. Esc is the first thing I do once something unintended happened.

[fredck]

Ok... you may have got used to it and, for you, it sounds natural, but I still find it weird... "Escape" really gets this connotation of "exit" or "close", but never "undo", for me. Maybe this is something that programmers may have, based on some IDE or something.

Anyway, less is better, so let's be sure we want to have it now. Such enhancements can easily land at any point later.

[wwalc]

Esc in MS Word does not work in case of changes added by autoformatter. At least in case of bulleted lists made out of an asterisk. Undo (Ctrl Z) does work.

[scofalik]

I always do Ctrl + Z

[Reinmar]

Odd... am I the only one using Esc? :D

[Reinmar]

Wiktor asked me whether Backspace shouldn't revert autoformatting too. AFAIR, that's what some editors do (but I'm too lazy now to check ;)). Worth considering.

[wwalc]

I got used to use Backspace to revert autoformatting (thanks to Google Docs, where it works this way).

[Reinmar]

Handling Backspace is important on mobile devices where undo may not be easily available and Esc does not exist.

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