P: Pressing the Esc key to exit 'text mode' negates all the changes in the text box

This mis-designed tool frustrates me, too, although in a slightly different context.

I don't hit ECP and delete. Rather, I create a text box, insert text, then move somewhere else to create a new text section or draw a new box (new layer). But it doesn't work. The only way to do so is to abandon the text tool (click another tool) and click the Text tool again. It seems stupid and a waste of time to have to turn off the text tool and turn it back on just to continue text elsewhere.

I just hit Esc and ALL of my changes erased. how can i bring them back??? Ahhhhh!

You are correct...we used CMD+H first. 8-)

Yeah, totally expected. I was actually surprised that Adobe didn't go down the road to do a soft transition for this, given how controversial the change was. 🙂

(for the record, I think that Cmd+H as used by Photoshop before Apple decided to use that key for app hiding.)

Aaron, this change has been implemented in CC 14.2 (and we have as expected other threads complaining about this change)

Okay, so, this thread's existed for more than two years now. When exactly will this fix be available?

This is even more annoying since ESC exits the text box in InDesign without destroying changes. I spent a lot of time in ID, and everytime I create a text box in PS I end up typing the text two or three times.

Holy Cow, can we just make it a preference and everyone's happy?

Here, this simple:

http://cl.ly/image/3N403t1h3l23

CC would have been a perfect opp to add this; I"m way disappointed not seeing it.

Chris, we'll discuss it live if it ever happen we meet. :)

My perspective is exactly like you just said: I'm very aware that there are years of priming for many users, before using the CS suite I would have probably the same behaviour as the one you describe. My comments above were very contextual, and were highlighting the reasons why putting an option, like you said, would be a huge thing. :)

The fact that I highlighted the problem, doesn't mean that I was asking a hard replacement, as I was discussing with David above. It was meant just to give data points to a problem that exists, a problem that could be addressed in some way by the team in order to ease the scenario and find the ideal solution, as the Photoshop team already did in the past for other options. 🙂