Delete draft when escape is pressed with completely empty topic

I believe this is connected to this other recent topic, also talking about the behavior when cancelling the composer after writing very little:

And this topic from 2017, where the behavior for “Titles will be saved in a draft even if there’s no body” was actually added:

So we have conflicting requests here, and need some way to determine whether the composer content is meaningful enough to:

  • save a draft vs wait for more words
  • minimize vs terminate composer

@tshenry initially thought that the min topic title length was consulted, but it is not. Sometimes people put a lot of effort into choosing tags. I don’t currently have a proposal for coherent and understandable behavior.

@sam, how much progress did you make on that other topic?


As a first pass, “save draft / minimize” and “don’t save / terminate” should probably be the only possible behaviors here. Unless we need to allow for “save draft / terminate” - likely only through a dialog box.

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