Escape in emacs-state -- outdated info; suggested binding doesn't work in terminal about evil-guide HOT 3 CLOSED

Yes, there were some typos/errors about evil-toggle-key. I've fixed them.

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This is the expected behavior. ESC and meta normally behave same in terminal Emacs. Evil handles escape specially which is why it works in insert state in the terminal. There is actually an explicit check in the code to prevent this functionality in emacs state it seems (see here). I'd recommended opening an issue on evil requesting that it optionally support emacs state as well.

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Thanks for the link. I've found that (defalias 'evil-emacs-state 'evil-insert-state) accomplishes what I want (I also use evil-disable-insert-state-bindings), so for now won't make a feature request on evil.

I should note that the statement that ESC is bound to evil-exit-emacs-state appears to be false, even in the GUI -- I think my wording was ambiguous there.

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