On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:12:51AM +1030, David Kettler wrote:
> John, I'm interested in hearing about your intentions regarding the
> new keymap and input system with page modes.  The present overriding
> of keystrokes is certainly awkward to use.  Do you intend that there
> simply be a convenient way to toggle modes between the page mode
> keymap and content_buffer_normal_keymap?


I want to split up page-modes, and remove the restriction of "there can be
only one".  Instead of each existing "monolithic" page-mode, there would
be a group of additive modes, each of which is responsible for one
feature.  In emacs terminology, page-modes will be more like a collection
of minor-modes than like a major-mode.  In mozilla terminology, page-modes
will be more like greasemonkey scripts.

Some of these modes will provide keymaps, but there will be nothing
special about those keymaps.. they would just be optional keymaps as could
be installed by any module.  The last piece of the puzzle will be
providing a UI by which the user can interactively toggle optional
keymaps, though I'm not sure exactly what form that UI will take at the
moment.

-- 
John Foerch
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