Helm breaks when losing focus

[max-white]

When switching out ouf helm-find-files to another buffer one cannot switch back. Trying to select the helm window with wont work. According to the orange square spacemacs maybe assumes that the helm buffer is a normal file.

[Kethku]

I've encountered this as well. I find triggering helm afterwards gets it to close. A related problem: if you kill the helm window after it gets glitched, you are unable to move the cursor until you move the cursor with the mouse. To get helm to pop again you have to trigger it twice.

[robbyoconnor]

I also encounter this -- It's never been enough for me to file an issue but it's annoying as hell...@tuhdo?

[TheBB]

Yeah, me too. I just do as @Devagamster and fire up a quick SPC b b ESC to get it away. You can also get to the minibuffer with an appropriate number of SPC w j at which point you can also ESC out. But it would be nice if there was some kind of "bring me to the minibuffer" binding.

[TheBB]

Actually, turns out there is one: SPC w b brings you back to the minibuffer if you happen to be out of it. I think that's the best way to deal with this problem.

[robbyoconnor]

I would much rather have had the text input for helm had remained in the minibuffer...The way it is right now breaks shit.

[justbur]

I also vote to use the minibuffer again for helm. I always look in the wrong place for the helm input :-)

[Kethku]

Is this a setting that was changed?

[TheBB]

Yes, you can set helm-echo-input-in-header-line to nil.

[syl20bnr]

This is one quirk of the UI that we have to live with. Personally I don't mind such issue which results on a mistake on my part, when I learn my editor I also learn how to get out bad situations and rough edges :-)
My solution to this issue was not as elegant as yours, I used to focus the helm buffer back then SPC w c and fd to get out the minibuffer.

Thank you for the tips SPC w b works like a charm :-)

We should document this.

[robbyoconnor]

Works like a charm!

[zilongshanren]

+1 for SPC w b 👍