Comment 7 for bug 871141

A slightly different patch where now "ESC" just clears the search field when this widget has focus (this is also the behaviour, amarok and banshee have).
Jus, I agree with the way you describe how it's reasonable for "ESC" to function (although, now I like the idea of having a shortcut for just clearing the search instead of multiple backspacing) but it needs more time to implement it that way.
I propose to have this one committed and see in the future what we can do to improve that (and maybe in a different bug as this one was for the tab key which has already been fixed).