How to cancel an ongoing find/search in Sublime Text3

Question

How can I cancel an ongoing search in sublime text? basically when I do a recursive folder search for a particular text using

ctrl + shft + F

Answer 1

It is currently not possible to stop a "Find in Files" search once it has begun. Closing the "Find Results" panel or tab doesn't affect it - it only means you won't see any further results that are found.

It has been logged as an issue here: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1481