Meta Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
In the chat, we often use backticks highlight code inside of sentences, exactly like how we do it here.
Unfortunately, it's located peculiarly close to the esc key, which has a nasty effect of clearing the chat input.
Outside of making a userscript, would it be alright to disable that effect so that I (and probably a bunch of others) don't throw my computer out the window when I lose a larger post to a misplaced keystroke?
Note: command+z (OSX) does not undo the delete.
as a workaround for people I have created a userscript that offers keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting in the chats.
you can see the script here: Chat Easy Input Tools - Provides keyboard shortcuts for common text formatting commands
Installing it is a little strange (sorry it is not on the play store) - you need to download the file and open chrome://extensions and drag and drop it to the page.
All of the following commands are run if the user has focus in the chat input area.
code. 
control|command+Znot working. That's the part that bugs me. There is no going back.