I consider this NOTABUG. The composer is not a mere dialog box,
it's more of a document window.

Well set it to NOTABUG then :)

I agree.  You dont expect ESC to close a new netscape window hwne you
accudentally press c-n do you?

Netscape windows are things that you tend to use for a long time.

New mail messages, new tasks, new calendar entries, new addresses are
all transient dialogs.

Outlook does handle ESC in those situations as expected. 

Nat agreed that this is a 1.1

Reopening

*** bug 214144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is totally insane.

Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be
moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just
search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark
all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to
evolution@ximian.com, not the bug.
Luis

I'm not sure this is desirable... a composer window is similar to a
new "Microsoft Word" document, and I don't think you'd want Esc to
close your document in mid-composition. Besides which, a composer
isn't a dialog and Esc is for closing dialogs.

I guess this is up to anna to decide...

apparently esc closes the composer in Outlook

*shrug*

yeah yeah please add this. It is really hard to hit esc by default,
and this keybinding has previously established precedence, both of
which reasons make it a safe addition. (imho)

anna

Ok, to make Esc close the composer *instead* of ^W is pretty easy --
we'd just change evolution-message-composer.xml and put in "Escape"
for the accel attribute of the FileClose verb.

I'm not sure how we'd go about having *both* work; I've poked around a
bit and it's pretty confusing stuff.

But having Esc instead of ^W might be good because right now ^W
conflicts with Cut when you're using Emacs keybindings in GtkHTML.

We need to have ^W too.

fixed in CVS