As with most things, that sounds like a bug.

What's missing is the info on the platform you are using. As you write "CTRL+E" I assume it's Windows.

On Jun 25, 2020, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:44:47 +0200
From: oliver <oliver@klingt.org>
To: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Subject: [PD] exiting edit mode ...
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hi,

recently i had the feeling that i had to do CTRL+E more often than i 
used to to get out of edit mode.

on a version comparison, i found out that this is actually true.

since PD 0.50 (or was this already introduced in 0.49 ?), when you enter 
edit mode to f.e. type something into a message box, you have to exit 
the edit mode twice:

once to leave the message box, and once to exit edit mode.

i compared this behaviour with PD 0.48, where hitting CTRL+E after 
editing a message box did both things at once (which is much more fluid 
and the behaviour that i would personally prefer).

is this ("new") behaviour intended and
what is the reasoning behind this ?

best

oliver

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