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authorblasty <blasty@local>2026-07-25 20:19:34 +0200
committerblasty <blasty@local>2026-07-25 20:19:34 +0200
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parentnav: tell the user something is happening when Esc needs a decompile (diff)
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nav: bind back to backspace as well — a bare Esc isn't reliable in a terminal
Esc-to-go-back needed two presses. It looked like the decomp pane was swallowing the first one, but the RPC state dump before/after a single Esc settles it: nav_depth 3 -> 3 action_back never ran cursor.col 19 -> 20 +1 column, i.e. `right` modal null nothing was up to eat the key The keypress arrived as a right-arrow. \x1b is both Escape and the lead byte of every arrow/function-key sequence (ESC [ C is right), so a terminal or tmux that merges a lone Esc with what follows delivers something else entirely. Nothing in the nav path touches cursor_x and there is no widget-level escape binding on the code views, so this was never application logic — I spent two commits looking in the wrong place before asking for the dump. Bind back to "escape,backspace". Backspace is unambiguous, so going back never depends on a byte the terminal can reinterpret; Esc still works wherever it's delivered intact. tmux users generally want `set -sg escape-time 10` regardless. docs/TEXTUAL_NOTES.md records the symptom and, more usefully, the triage: check nav_depth in the state dump first — if the action never ran, it's the input layer, not the logic. Verified: backspace in the pseudocode pane takes nav 3 -> 2 and reloads the previous function. Suite 192/0.
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-rw-r--r--idatui/app.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/idatui/app.py b/idatui/app.py
index 57ec7df..5898489 100644
--- a/idatui/app.py
+++ b/idatui/app.py
@@ -3150,7 +3150,12 @@ class IdaTui(App):
Binding("ctrl+b", "toggle_functions", "Names", show=False),
Binding("tab,shift+tab", "toggle_view", "Disasm/Pseudocode", priority=True),
Binding("ctrl+s", "save", "Save"),
- Binding("escape", "back", "Back"),
+ # Esc is IDA's muscle memory, but a bare \x1b is ambiguous in terminals:
+ # it's also the lead byte of every arrow/function-key sequence, so a
+ # terminal or tmux that merges it (see tmux escape-time) delivers the
+ # keypress as e.g. "right" and back silently doesn't happen. Backspace
+ # is unambiguous and always works.
+ Binding("escape,backspace", "back", "Back"),
]
def __init__(self, open_path: str | None = None, keepalive: bool = True,