Make <ESC> do defocusing.

Vimium will try to blur the active element first. If there is no element
to be blurred, we select the topmost frame instead. Thus the user is
able to use <ESC> to return Vimium fully to its 'default' state.

Closes #426.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vimiumFrontend.js b/vimiumFrontend.js
index 6a3fd698..a175f0eb 100644
--- a/vimiumFrontend.js
+++ b/vimiumFrontend.js
@@ -510,6 +510,8 @@ function onKeydown(event) {
     }
     else if (isEscape(event)) {
       keyPort.postMessage({keyChar:"<ESC>", frameId:frameId});
+      handleEscapeForNormalMode();
+      suppressEvent(event);
     }
   }
 
@@ -980,6 +982,13 @@ function hideHelpDialog(clickEvent) {
     clickEvent.preventDefault();
 }
 
+function handleEscapeForNormalMode() {
+  if (document.activeElement !== document.body)
+    document.activeElement.blur();
+  else if (window.top !== window.self)
+    chrome.extension.sendRequest({ handler: "focusTopFrame" });
+}
+
 /*
  * A heads-up-display (HUD) for showing Vimium page operations.
  * Note: you cannot interact with the HUD until document.body is available.