Escape key
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| Names | Escape, Esc |
|---|---|
| ISO/IEC symbol |
⎋ |
| ASCII | 27 |
| X11 | Escape |
| USB | Keyboard ESCAPE (page 7, id 41) |
The escape key is a keyboard key with a variety of functions depending on the operating system in question.
Escape is typically a single-unit key, but BTC in particular are noted for using 1.25-unit keycaps for escape.
Usage
- In graphical desktop systems, escape typically cancels out of dialog boxes (on Mac OS, the alternative was command+.)
- Within BBC BASIC, escape halts the running program, or cancels the current text input, and prints "Escape" on the screen; for professionalism and safety, this facility can easily be blocked by binding it to its ASCII value of 27
- At the Windows and MS-DOS command line, it cancels the current text input (in this sense, similar to ^C at a UNIX or Linux command line)
"Panic" novelty replacement Escape key from Fentek Industries
Macintosh escape symbol on a Matias keycap (the character is in Mac system fonts, but Apple keyboards use "esc")
