Additional esc key (Caps Lock) in Linux Mint does not work with recording macros

[kristian-clausal]

Summary

I'm using Caps Lock as an alternative ESC key on Linux Mint, set in Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts -> Options -> Caps Lock behavior.

I am doing a repetitive task and decided to record a macro, and it took me a while to figure out that what was going wrong with the process (no macro was being recorded, pressing Q again started a new recording) was that I was using Caps Lock-as-ESC to exit Insert mode. Exiting with the physical ESC key worked as expected.

Reproduction Steps

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Helix log

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Platform

Linux Mint

Terminal Emulator

Mate terminal

Helix Version

23.05-181-gd3f8e059

[the-mikedavis]

Is there a difference in the keycodes between actual escape and the remapped escape if you run something like showkey -a? Ideally also try cloning crossterm (the terminal manipulation library we use) and run the event-read example: cargo run --example event-read and see if both versions of escape can quit the example.

AFAIK we don't do any special key handling when in a macro vs. not in a macro so I would expect that either version of escape should work the same whether you're recording a macro or not.