Four screens carry a find-as-you-type filter and Esc meant two things across
them: the map and the mesh walk cleared the query and stayed, while the select
list and the path composer left the screen, filter and all. Typing "yul" on the
map then pressing Esc showed you the map; typing "yul" on a contact list then
pressing Esc dropped you at the main menu. Same affordance, same glyphs,
opposite outcome — and the select list is by far the most-used of the four.
They peel now, all of them: the typed query is the most recent thing the reader
entered, so the first Esc takes it back and the second leaves. The footer says
which, swapping its trailing Esc verb for "Esc clear" while a filter stands —
the word the map and the walk have always used, via a _esc_verb helper beside
the two atom-splicers that already bend that line. The composer's Esc now
layers exactly as its own backspace does: the entry first, then the screen.
This was finding D in docs/survey-navigation.md, open since the survey was
written and the last thing left telling a reader what Esc does. The rule is now
stated in CLAUDE.md under Navigation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5
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