Add a key binding to close search bar modal.

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I prefer keyboard only workflow and I use a plugin to navigate between links and pages in browser. I'm pretty happy with GitHub's keyboard support but I find there's no keybinding to close the search bar modal. For example, I use S or / to open the search bar modal and then I just want to close the modal without a search action. A ESC should close the modal in common case but there's no such a keybinding. So I think an extra keybinding to close the modal is very helpful.

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How do you think adding a keybinding to close the search bar modal on GitHub would improve the user experience, especially for keyboard-only users?