get rid of "Do you want to keep changes...?" dialog when canceling a Text edit

[lionel.kai]

There's only one case I can think of where I'd want to see the above dialog: when I actually MADE A CHANGE and then pressed Esc. However, there are two cases where the dialog pops up which makes it EXTREMELY annoying:

• Create a new Text element (but don't type anything) and press Esc. Revit should just cancel the creation (as expected), even if a leader was created (but especially if there's none). Pressing Esc usually indicates that you want to cancel the command. Revit should do so. Promptly.
• Edit an existing Text element (but don't make any changes) and press Esc. There's no changes to keep, so why is it asking?

If you click outside the Text box (instead of clicking Esc) for either of the cases above, then no dialog is presented. However, this would require unnecessary retraining. Also, if a leader is created in a new (empty) Text element, clicking outside it now keeps the leader (with blank text) instead of requiring you to actually type in an invisible character (so clicking outside the text box is not a viable workaround to cancel the creation in many cases).

This is a change in 2017+ (2016 and earlier versions behave properly). Revit should honor Esc!

[Anonymous]

Amen. Always finish a pray with Amen. 

This is the MOST annoying new feature in 2017+

I never get use to it, it's not intuitive at all, hitting the ESC key is intuitive, then the rules change for text. I will post a link to this in various places to drum up support. 

[dplumb_BWBR]

There's a long thread about this on RFO

https://www.revitforum.org/architecture-general-revit-questions/35154-cancel-editing-text-grrrr.html

[lionel.kai]

@dplumb_BWBR And I made it a little longer...  Thanks for the link to the discussion!

EDIT: As mentioned in my RFO post, the behavior in AutoCAD is correct/desired - no "extra" warnings, and an "Always perform my current choice" option.

[Anonymous]

Please lord yes- this annoys me on a daily basis!

[kgatzke]

I used to be able to just hit ESC when I wanted to cancel editing text.

Now I have to stop what I'm doing, look at this obstruction

and click No.  That's a whole bunch of extra steps to do what used to take the click of one key.

I don't know who you think you're helping with flub dubs like this but it's not me.

Get rid of it or at least add a check box for 'Always do this from now on' 

[kimberly_fuhrman-jones]

We are pleased to say that this has been implemented in Revit 2022!

-The Factory