Escape Key Ends The World As We Know It

For reference, please see this older post: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/8876482/escape-key-behavior/?pageforid=8876482#post-8876482" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/8876482/escape-key-behavior/?pageforid=8876482#post-8876482</a> This has happened to me so many times it almost makes me want to cry even bringing it up.&nbsp; Let's say you're running a game using Roll20. And let's say you're the kind of DM who does a bit more than just copy and post bits from a pre-made adventure you've purchased somewhere. Your in-game notes are intricate, meticulously written and carefully formatted using Roll20's editor. You're on a roll, and you've been working for &nbsp;hours &nbsp;on material for your next game session this coming weekend. And you then manage to fat-finger the Escape key, the editor you were working in abrubtly closes, and you lose six hours of your life that you have no way whatsoever of ever getting back no matter how many bloody tears you cry .&nbsp; Please, please change this. Does anyone actually need &nbsp;the Escape key's functionality with respect to the editor window in Roll20? Is there anyone who would really be all that badly hurt if, say, this functionally just stopped working immediately without a word being said about it ? Phrased another way: does using the Escape key to close your windows without saving actually benefit &nbsp;anyone, or does it only cause pain and misery as it forces full-grown adults to cry like toddlers who've been told it's naptime? In the name of all that is holy, please. I beg of you. Of the hours of my lifetime that I have spent in Roll20 prepping games, easily 50% of that has been spent reconstructing things that were lost to an errant press of the Escape key. ... Okay, fair enough, that is probably an exaggeration. I'd share my work and show you my data, but naturally it was lost in a Roll20 handout when I accidentally pressed the Escape key and lost it all forever . Do I usually put data on my time usage of Roll20 into handouts in Roll20, I can hear you asking me. Why, of course, don't you? I seem to want to answer.

Hi Matt,&nbsp; I understand your pain, I have also had similar issues. Until such a time where this gets implemented (if it does) I suggest writing outside of Roll20 then copy/pasting it into Roll20.&nbsp; I do this with almost any website, not just Roll20, since I have run into others that also do not save while you are writing causing a loss of what it written.&nbsp; Even writing this response in Roll20 is a bad idea, in case a refresh accidentally gets hit. :D

After many years working with various applications on several generations of user interfaces (starting with Wordstar under PC-DOS) I've learned to never work directly in any app that does not have a configurable autosave function, and if I'm forced to, I save changes A LOT .

Gauss said: Hi Matt,&nbsp; I understand your pain, I have also had similar issues. Until such a time where this gets implemented (if it does) I suggest writing outside of Roll20 then copy/pasting it into Roll20.&nbsp; I do this with almost any website, not just Roll20, since I have run into others that also do not save while you are writing causing a loss of what it written.&nbsp; Even writing this response in Roll20 is a bad idea, in case a refresh accidentally gets hit. :D Believe me, I understand this in principle. And for what it's worth, much of what I write for my games does get written outside of the app itself.&nbsp; But this specifically &nbsp;seems like a no-brainer. What possible use does this escape-key functionality have other &nbsp;than the destruction of lives, relationships and sanity? For convenience's sake, some of the stuff I write directly into Roll20 benefits from formatting it as I create it, right there in the editor. Since a lot of what I present to my players is modified homebrew stuff that I'm required to re-write, re-phrase or re-design, putting it up on Roll20 and formatting it as I go really is my preferred way of doing it – because if I wrote it outside of Roll20 and pasted it in, the formatting I would do during the writing process would either be lost, or if preserved would require some tinkering/editing anyway. And all of that seems like an awful lot of work-around to avoid a problem whose existence I question anyway. Who are all these people who need the Escape key to quickly close an unsaved editor window in Roll20 anyway, and what great problem does this functionality solve? I'd truly like to know, as I'm looking for any kind of silver lining to the loss of all those hours of work I've racked up over the years of using this site.

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