need way to pass Escape through pass-through mode

When in pass-through mode, sometimes it’s useful to be able to pass Escape through to the website. Example use case:

• Go to a GitHub page
• Press Alt-i to enable pass-through mode
• Press ? to see the GitHub keyboard shortcuts modal dialog
• Now I want to hide the GitHub dialog

However Escape simply cancels pass-through mode, so this is currently impossible. What seems to work instead is pressing Escape twice: the first cancels the mode, and the second somehow reaches the website. But of course then I have to press Alt-i to switch back into pass-through, which is not ideal.

SurfingKeys: 0.9.42

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.84 Safari/537.36

[aspiers]

@PrestanceDesign commented:

Maybe toggle PassThrough with the same keysAlt+i ?

Ahh, that’s an interesting idea, but I agree with @brookhong that not everyone would expect or like this. So maybe make it an option whether PassThrough is exited via Esc or Alt+i? The default configuration would be the current behaviour, and people like me could reconfigure the exit key to be Alt+i instead of Esc.

[brookhong]

Please try ephemeral Passthrough mode with p, see more at https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/blob/936284a3c4abd4c859b5157a5dd8f945671ba724/README.md#passthrough-mode