<![CDATA[How to detect ESC keypressed ?]]>Hi,

Do you know if and how I can be notified when ESC key is pressed ?

I tried SCN_CHARADDED, SCN_MODIFIED, SCN_KEY + some other scintilla notification codes, but none of them is invoked when ESC is pressed. I couldn’t find any NPPN_* notification which looks useful for that too.

Any suggestion ?
Thanks

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/18909/how-to-detect-esc-keypressedRSS for NodeSun, 07 Jun 2026 20:50:15 GMTFri, 14 Feb 2020 09:00:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to detect ESC keypressed ? on Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:17:02 GMT]]>Thanks you both for your help.

I followed your suggestion (low level keyboard hook) and I can now handle ESC key pressed.

Best Regards

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/50775https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/50775Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:17:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to detect ESC keypressed ? on Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:15:34 GMT]]>In the BetterMultiSelection plugin I’ve used SetWindowsHookEx() to hook the keyboard and catch the escape key (along with other keys) before they are sent to Notepad++.

See https://github.com/dail8859/BetterMultiSelection/blob/master/src/Main.cpp

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/50678https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/50678Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:15:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to detect ESC keypressed ? on Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:34:20 GMT]]>@morbac

to quote from scintilla

SCN_KEY
Reports all keys pressed but not consumed by Scintilla. Used on GTK because of some problems with keyboard focus and is not sent by the Windows version.

At the moment I only see the way to either register a low level keyboard hook or hooking npps message queue in general.

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