Provides a global minor mode esc-mode to make the escape key behave like a normal escape key, in both GUI and terminal Emacs, without interfering with commands that rely on terminal escape key sequences, such as M-f, xterm-mouse-mode, etc.

Clone the stable branch:

git clone -b stable https://gitlab.com/lae/emacs-esc.git

Add to your Emacs init file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "<path-to-cloned-directory>")
(require 'esc)
(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook 'esc-mode)

esc-mode will bind a special function to ESC in input-decode-map, if you try to bind any key prefixed with ESC in there after esc-mode is enabled, you'll see an error Key sequence <your-keys> starts with non-prefix key ESC, therefore you need to add such key bindings before enabling esc-mode.

Customizations can be done via: M-x customize-group return esc return.

• esc-quit-function: Name of function to call when escape is pressed on its own. Default is to delegate to whatever action that is under C-g at the time of invocation.