Unicode escape is ctrl+[ , why does this work in terminal or vim, but not safari or other parts of OS?
Solution 1:
For example if search a page in safari you can't escape out of the search with ctrl+[
It's because Safari is not operating in an ASCII/ANSI Terminal environment.
The Escape character is
- octal:
\033 - hexadecimal:
\x1Bor^[ - decimal: 27
It's just a series of characters the terminal looks for that interprets it as actions or special characters.
As for working in vim (or vi), you aren't limited to sending ^[ (^ Control[), you can simply press the Escape key. It will do the same thing.