>> intercepts the main loop > This is optional, per transient menu (prefix) and the commands within it. > A common technique, used by magit and others, is to have entry point > commands in the regular keymap so that many commands can be started without > traversing several menus. If you want normal un-shadowed bindings active > at the same time, the prefix has a slot called `transient-non-suffix' that > is similar to the `:suppress' option in keymaps or setting a `t' > `undefined' binding in a keymap. However the results of mixing self-insert > and modal or modal and another modal are generally bad.
>From the manual page describing the `transient-non-suffix' slot: > If the value is ‘t’, then non-suffixes can be invoked, when it is > ‘nil’ (the default) then they cannot be invoked. > > The only other recommended value is ‘leave’. If that is used, then > non-suffixes can be invoked, but if one is invoked, then that exits the > transient. This is one of my issues with Transient -- here it is reimplementing the idea of a regular transient keymap (the kind you can use with `set-transient-map') but increasing the cognitive load of applying this behavior. I understand that Transient needs to implement behaviors not provided by Elisp (like infixes), but fashioning whole-cloth replacements for behaviors that are provided -- like the KEEP-PRED behavior of `set-transient-map' -- makes writing Transients a very high effort activity. Karthik
