st: escape to the command window lost in 5/18 executable update

[Gary Longton <glongton@fhcrc.org>]

Does anyone else miss the ability to <escape> quickly from the help (viewer) 
window back to the command window?  This was previously an apparently 
undocumented, maybe even unintentional, but very convenient function of the 
escape key.

In a communication yesterday with Chinh Nguyen of StataCorp, I wrote the 
following and also asked if polling Statalist to see if others might now miss 
this feature would help in the decision to bring this feature back or not. 
Chinh didn't realize the the escape key previously did this, indicated that the 
loss of this function was unintentional, and replied that, yes, a query to 
Statalist would help in deciding where to go with it.

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(excerpt from message to Stata Tech support)
Though I welcome many of the windowing improvements in the May 18 executable 
update (eg. ability to lock the relative positions of the review and variables 
windows wrt the main stata window, keyboard scrolling of the results window, 
etc.), my stumbling fingers grumble daily about the loss of one feature - the 
ability to return to the command window from the help (viewer) window with a 
simple touch of the escape key.  This may sound like a pretty minor gripe, but 
the transition from command window -> help (viewer) -> command window is a very 
frequent sequence for me, and much easier to navigate blindly and mouselessly 
with the escape key than looking down to make sure I hit the ctrl-4 combination 
correctly.

What is the likelihood of bringing this back?
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Thanks,
Gary Longton



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