how to get ESC key to save text when using single line text (DTEXT)
Hi,
>> ... since my personal automatic response is to hit the escape key after most every command.
double enter will solve your issue , isn't it ? 😉
Imad Habash
@jetted4 wrote:
Most everything in Autocad saves what you did if you hit the escape key.
No, the {ESC} key sends a Cancel command to the command line. Your thinking is counter to the way commands should work. I don't know anyone who has gotten into this habit. Switch to using the {ENTER} key to end a command. Or if you are using the mouse while editing text, just pick somewhere outside the text box.
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@jetted4 wrote:
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esc usually releases a command without erasing what you already created - including for multi-line text...
... only if you have it set that way. By default, ESCape results in it asking you whether you want your text saved [answering which would be more work than the other suggestions here], but there's an "Always perform my current choice" button that you have presumably checked.
To suggest that Autodesk incorporate such a feature into the TEXT command, go to the >Product Feedback< page.
@jetted4 wrote:
.... Where is the "always perform my current choice" button?
That's what I get when I hit ESCape when typing in Mtext content. But once that has been picked along with either the Yes or No option, I don't know what it would take to get the choice back [I haven't investigated at all]. And it's only an Mtext thing, as you can see from the heading.
Did you hide that choice from yourself by ticking this box recently (or whenever it stopped appearing)
After entering your text, pick on screen off of the text, hit escape key. Since your hand is on the mouse it should be quick enough, although I don't know how you enter text with one hand on the mouse.
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@TomBeauford wrote:
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Using {ESC} while creating DTEXT also exits the command leaving whatever lines of text you've already finished drawing.
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That may depend on what you mean by "already finished." It leaves whatever lines you have completed by hitting Enter for another below, or before picking elsewhere on-screen to start a new Text object. But it does not leave whatever you have typed so far in the current Text object. So putting in a single line of plain Text cannot be ended with just ESCape but retaining what you've done so far, as LINE/PLINE can be. @jetted4 , is that what you're talking about?
If it's of any use to you, the other thing you can do is to pick anywhere on-screen away from the current Text you're typing [which by itself would end an MTEXT command], then you can hit either ESCape or Enter to end it.