Comment 15 for bug 900602

@John - would it be possibly to have <esc> also return focus to the currently edited text object on-canvas (like it did in Inkscape 0.47), same as with <return>?

In Inkscape 0.48 and current trunk (without or with your patch), the result of <esc> is kind of a "no-man's-land" with regard to current focus for keyboard input, and does not allow to keep the current selected text object unless resorting to the mouse.