Comment 3 for bug 611300

Hmm, I tried that. Actually, in version 1.5.2 "escape" will be available as a special key and it will (by default) be assigned to switching from drawing mode into slide mode. However, I still get strange results when type ahead is active. Index mode seems to work a little better. Although, even in index mode I cannot use "i" to switch back to slide mode. "Enter" seems to work. I also tried to assign "enter" for switching from drawing mode to slide mode, but that did not yield the expected result either.

Interestingly enough, if I had the browser display an alert window at the beginning of the switching function, things seemed to be back to normal. I am not quite sure what to make of that, but I don't want to block the release of version 1.5.2 because of this issue. Hence, I reassigned the issue to 2.0.0 alpha.