From 85a534fb8a6cb0c6d83850f6bc0bac7630828170 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime Coste <mawww@kakoune.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:34:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Support inserting esc characters through <c-v>

As requested in #960
---
 src/keys.cc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/keys.cc b/src/keys.cc
index 11b2ad93e..c9031732f 100644
--- a/src/keys.cc
+++ b/src/keys.cc
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ Optional<Codepoint> Key::codepoint() const
         return '\n';
     if (*this == Key::Tab)
         return '\t';
+    if (*this == Key::Escape)
+        return 0x1B;
     if (modifiers == Modifiers::None and key > 27 and
         (key < 0xD800 or key > 0xDFFF)) // avoid surrogates
         return key;