Getting stuck in the helm microstate

[icambron]

Edited description: Once in the helm microstate, I can't get back out! It persists across uses of helm and makes it hard to do stuff with numbers.

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I have a file in my project called "oauth2" which I'd like to open. I hit spc p f and start typing "oauth2". When I enter the "2" the helm buffer takes up the whole screen. Other numbers have different behaviors: "1" or "3" closes it, "4" brings up some kind of completion-algorithm chooser, "5" some kind of regex thingy, and so on. I guess it's some way to switch between helm...things. But it should really be finding the file with the character 2 in it, right?

[jasoncyu]

You activated the helm micro-state. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.md#helm-micro-state

[syl20bnr]

I cannot reproduce it, are you using the Vim or Emacs style ?
Does it happen all the time ?

[icambron]

I guess I don't know what Vim vs Emacs "style" is...but I do use the default Evil keybindings everywhere and my .spacemacs is here: https://github.com/icambron/dotfiles/blob/master/.spacemacs

I restarted Emacs and it went away. From looking at the micro-state docs, it does appear to be that. I may accidentally be hitting shift-command-space while in Helm (I have command space bound to Spotlight and afaik command on Mac = Meta). Anyway, I can reproduce it by doing that.

However, I'm not able to leave the micro-state, except by restarting Emacs. Hitting s-m-spc again doesn't seem to do anything, and, though perhaps I don't understand Helm Micro-state, I don't expect it to keep me in that state next time I bring up helm, which it's doing.

[jasoncyu]

yeah, that state does seem to be a little buggy, I've only entered it on accident, which should be impossible because its two keybindings are already bound to other osx things, like alfred. I've never had a problem getting out of it though. Basically, if I'm in an inconsistent state, I just mash <Esc> and <C-g> until I get back to a normal state. Does that work for you @icambron ?

[icambron]

@jasoncyu No, it doesn't, at least every way I've tried so far.

[tshemeng]

@syl20bnr it's key-map bug, micro-state redefined minibuffer's keymap, so read-from-minibuffer cannot work well. same happend when rename a tag from web-mode micro-state.

[codedmart]

@icambron I seem to have hit this issue as well. More related to you original title. I can't find files SPC p f or search for functions/methods with numbers in them SPC s a p. As soon as I hit the number the corresponding Helm micro-state keybinding happens (Helm micro-state), but I can type letters that correspond to the Helm micro-state keybinding fine. @syl20bnr I am new to emacs/spacemacs. Where could I look to try and help solve it possibly?

[a13ph]

possibly related (was trying to reproduce that bug):
SPC s a p, some query RET enters C-u for me (while not displaying any results, maybe cause I don't particularly use projects)
if I try to enter any number afterwards, it reveals that I'm indeed in universal-argument entry

System Info

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 25.0.50.2
• Spacemacs: 0.104.2
• Spacemacs branch: nil (rev. 074f425)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Layers:

(auto-completion better-defaults emacs-lisp markdown git version-control org search-engine
                 (ranger :variables ranger-show-preview t)
                 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
                 shell-scripts spell-checking syntax-checking
                 (evil-snipe :variables evil-snipe-enable-alternate-f-and-t-behaviors t)
                 autohotkey unimpaired haskell markdown python gnus)

[StreakyCobra]

It can already be helpful to have a visual indicator of being in the helm-micro-state. Right now, nothing allows to differentiate the micro-state and normal-state. Maybe @TheBB can include this information in the spaceline?