Type or paste asterisk into Terminal window

I couldn't understand why I was having trouble with an insert action for placing an asterisk into a Terminal window. I had tried both pasting and typing. I'm trying to pause my macro by making it wait for presses of the escape (⎋) key. Now I've realized that escape is doing something else in Terminal. If I turn off the KM Engine, and press escape (⎋) several times, I see a new line in Terminal: "Display all [] possibilities? (y or n)". This must be some bashness. I really don't want to use a resume trigger other than the escape key in my macro. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Make a macro:

Name: Handle Escape
Trigger on Hot Key Escape
Action: Set Variable “Got Escape” to "1"
Disable Macro “Handle Escape”

Disable the macro.

In your macro above, instead of Pause Until Escape, do:

Set Variable “Got Escape” to "0"
Enable Macro "Handle Escape"
Pause Until variable “Got Escape” is “1”

That way the macro will steal the Escape key and the Terminal will never see it.

OK, thanks.