multi-letter key passthrough

[FranklinYu]

GitHub web has some built-in shortcut like gi goes to “issues”, and gp goes to pull requests. Is it possible to map Vimium actions to gn? I tried that, but it eats any g events; even if I type gi GitHub doesn’t go to issues. I suspect that Vimium-C ate g so GitHub only sees i. I’d like Vimium to pass through the gi when it sees that i doesn’t match anything starting with g.

[gdh1995]

No it's impossible, because during handling i, the first keyboard event of g has been "ended", and JS extensions like Vimium C can not re-produce such a native key event perfectly.

While you may use other tricks supported by Vimium C:

1. you may unmap gn, unmap gi, and unmap all other g-prefixed default mappings, and then map other keys to those Vimium C commands
2. you may map gi to dispatchEvent ...... when keeping gf default to nextFrame

• 1. dispatchEvent is a command designed to "simulate" keyboard events - extensions can not produce "native events" because of browser limits
• 2. then you may let Vimium C dispatch a sequence of key events, like:

map <v-de> dispatchEvent
run <v-de_g> de#key=g%2C103%2CKeyG
run <v-de_i> de#key=i%2C105%2CKeyI
run gi (de_g)(-de_g)(de_i)(-de_i)

Then when you press gi, a website will receive "simulated g and i", and it can use it or ignore it as it likes.