More powerful commands for nested-keymaps

[joshgoebel]

#65 talks about this a bit (somewhere in the log). I'm referring to manual control of exiting (or staying in a keymap). Right now often you're stuck with defaults. Most things exit nested keymaps.

• A combo match exits the keymap
• ignoring a key exits the keymap

Many commands also immediately return - preventing them from being used in a sequence, such as ignore_key... So right now: [ignore_key, something_else] is impossible, as ignore_key will terminate the sequence of commands.

I'm considering removing all the "early return" behavior... such that these would all work:

• [ignore_key, sleep(1)]
• [ignore_key, no_return_top]
• • [no_return_top, ignore_key] (equivalent to previous)
• ignore_key (return to top is implied, as it's the default)

I don't think we need a return as that is the default...

You could even write things like:

[ignore_key, K("Ctrl-K")] although it doesn't make a lot of sense. We might reconsider naming is nop (no operation)... or some such.

I know you've written on this before in the other thread, but you could maybe do a quick summary of what is needed here to make your Mac accent character stuff "perfect"...

[joshgoebel]

As part of this escape_next_key might need to be redesigned to not use a pseudo-keymap... right now you can't really use escape_next_key inside a keymap becasue doing so also implies exiting the keymap. Are there cases where we might want to escape the next key but remain in a nested keymap?

[RedBearAK]

@joshgoebel

Now this sounds like it might do what I was looking for. Sorry, I wasn't tagged so I didn't notice this thread until today.

Are there cases where we might want to escape the next key but remain in a nested keymap?

I can't... think of any?

I know you've written on this before in the other thread, but you could maybe do a quick summary of what is needed here to make your Mac accent character stuff "perfect"...

Just the ability to do an exit action/macro of commands if a combo is NOT inside an active keymap, and then have the input combo do what it would normally do outside of that keymap, after it triggered the "default" exit action.