Work with mapmode-c bindings
Also a big request. Don't know if its possible, but would be very nice.
Not sure what order you'll view these in, so I'm going to prefix all of the recent issues you've made with:
I've got a skybison 2.0 ~90% done with many improvements. There's some (external) blockers keeping me from finishing and publishing it (and a bunch of other vim projects of mine...) immediately, but I fully plan to do so as soon as is reasonably possible.
The 2.0 stuff includes the ability to have it utilize insert/normal/operator-pending/etc, a la cmdline-window. When doing this, it will Just Work with insert/normal/operator-pending/visual/etc mappings, and can be easily configured to use new mappings that are limited to / specifically for skybison.
While I've not yet implemented it (last ~10% to do), I strongly suspect the strategy utilized for the insert/normal/operator-pending/etc mappings should carry over to cmdline mappings to get a similar effect. I can't make any promises, but I figure there is a good chance 2.0 will release with this feature working out-of-the-box.