keybinding
This may sound odd but here we go. I'm a heavy keyboard user and I notice that a lot of tools (emacs, vim, ratpoison) seem to cope well with me making a LOT of mistakes. By mistakes I mean: typing (as in code or e-mails etc) while in the wrong mode, or sending key combinations for which there is no binding in my *rc.
I'll give a couple of examples so that it make more sense:
- emacs - I type
C-x C-nonsenseand get a friendly error - emacs - I type
C-x blahaccidently and spamC-guntil any random command or mode I just oppened goes away. - ratpoison - I type
C-r(or whatevere the ratpoison prefix is) and instantly all further keypresses are interpreted as ratpoison commands. - tmux - same as ratpoison.
So my problem is that with i3 - there isn't really a 'prefix' key like in tmux and ratpoison and emacs (I don't use vim very often). I simulated the idea of a prefix by creating a 'wm' mode in i3.
However, while in this mode, any keypresses are passed on to the window in focus unless they are overridden with bindsym. So my question:
Is there a way to prevent ALL keypresses EXCEPT those overridden with bindsym from being passed to the window in focus? At least just for a particular mode? How can I acheieve this?
That way I can have a prefix style operation rather than a vim-like operation (nothing wrong with vim - but since I'm so used to emacs I keep hitting C-x by accident and end up in some crazy mode).
I guess my real problem is that I need to think before I type - but that ain't gonna happen any time soon.
