Text tool: Pressing Esc key twice when editing text does not return to the Select tool

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • Select the text tool and type some text
  • Press Esc key twice

What happened?

Text tool remains selected. text-tool

Inkscape Version: Inkscape 1.2-dev (fd8ac314, 2021-05-04, custom)

What should have happened?

After pressing Esc twice, the select tool should be selected. text-tool-old

Desired behavior on:

Inkscape Version: 1.0.2 (1.0.2+r75+1)

Inkscape Version and Operating System:

  • Operating System version: Pop!_OS (Ubuntu-based) 20.10
Edited by Ishaan Arora