Pressing escape key empties the assessor feedback box

[jaygooby]

If you press the escape key at any point when writing feedback for a question, the feedback box is emptied, and then saved and there's no way to retrieve what you've just written.

This is incredibly frustrating, especially if you've just written a couple of paragraphs of feedback! Could you please trap escape key presses so they don't empty the text box or at least offer a way to retrieve a previously saved response.

[jaygooby]

Arg! This just happened again. My normal workflow for assessments is to run Karabiner elements and use the profile where I've disabled the escape key. I forgot to do this and lost another couple of paragraphs of text.

I've built a minimum proof of concept of the problem. If you press escape in the div after typing, you'll lose your text:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="./jquery.htmlClean.min.js"></script>
<script src="./rangy-core.js"></script>
<script src="./rangy-selectionsaverestore.js"></script>
<script src="./jquery.htmlClean.min.js"></script>
<script src="./html-md.js"></script>
<script src="./showdown.js"></script>
<script src="./hallo.js"></script>

<div id=editor style="border: solid 1px #000"></p>

<script>
jQuery('#editor').hallo({
  toolbar:'halloToolbarFixed'
});
</script>

Aside from the two jquery libraries, all the other .js came from https://github.com/InnovateUKGitHub/innovation-funding-service/tree/6f93dad035fb407fb3d056219c724d1778a3f357/ifs-web-service/ifs-web-core/src/main/resources/static/js/vendor/wysiwyg-editor.

It's a known problem with hallo.js and has been reported to the project, but that hasn't had any activity in 3 years.

It looks like this issue would affect applicants as well as assessors, because presumably they both use the same rich text editor.

[jaygooby]

This is still an issue 😞