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r35 & dev both. Open NB e.g. on a fresh user dir. With sampledir selected in the Explorer (w/ focus), type 'c' to start to select 'colorpicker'. Now change your mind and press Escape to cancel. 1. The selection is left on colorpicker. It should have been set back to sampledir where you started, just like in any search that you cancel. Similarly, if you press Backspace to delete the 'c', the search should back up to where it started. 2. The focus is no longer on the Explorer tree! It is on the scroll bar. You have to press Shift-TAB (or Ctrl-2) to get focus back on the tree. This is annoying.
add.2: really bug; it's a unwanted regression of Tim's fix of 30160, it is fixed in maintrunk now. add.1: I'm not sure what behavior could be correct. I'm used to select some folder by navigator, press Esc and continue with work. If Ecs restored previous selection then it could be confused why a selected nodes was changed. Can be fix of 2nd enough? Or should it tracked as UI defect?
Jesse, if you are think 1st part should be solved too, reopen it. Thanks
Your explanation of the behavior of ESC does make sense; it should leave selection on the last selected item. However Backspace does not work correctly. I will open that separately.
Opened 2nd half of #1 as issue #32915 for separate tracking.
*** Issue 33993 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
x verified please, fix part #2, too.