sublime press key "escape" can't type anything

Question

My sublime version is 3083. When I press key "ESCAPE",the cursor changed, and I can't type code any-more. If I close it, and reopen the file. I can type again.

Through key-map, I change key bindings and delete the following code. It won't happen again. but I can't close some window in sublime like the window I open with Ctrl+F.

Does this happen to anyone else?

{ "keys": ["escape"], "command": "clear_fields", "context":
    [
        { "key": "has_next_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": true }
    ]
},
{ "keys": ["escape"], "command": "clear_fields", "context":
    [
        { "key": "has_prev_field", "operator": "equal", "operand": true }
    ]
}

Answer 1

I know this is an old question but I've had the exact same problem for a while and it annoyed me to no end. I've managed to figure out the issue and a solution so I'll post it here in case anyone else has this problem.

The problem is that the package "Vintage" is not in your ignored_packages setting.

To solve: Preferences->Settings

This should open both the global and user settings. In the user settings you will probably have something along the lines of :

{
    "ignored_packages":
    [

    ]
}

Simply change this to: (or add this to your user settings file)

{
    "ignored_packages":
    [
        "Vintage"
    ]
}

Answer 2

When you hit the escape key, you enter under the command mode. You can see that you are in this mode at the bottom of Sublime Text's frame. In this mode, you can perform different actions with the keyboard, like using h, j, k and l keys to move the cursor and d d to remove a line. Those are similar to what you get with Vim's command mode.

If you want to leave the command mode and go back to the insert mode, just hit i.

Then, you will be able to write again, and you will see "INSERT MODE" back at the bottom of the frame: