Opening sidebar breaks read-only state for helm

[tmstieff]

After opening sidebar, any helm buffer is stuck in read-only. This prevents typing into the search bar, and a restart is required. I've researched how treemacs and neotree resolve this issue, and it looks like they use a major-mode that is read-only by nature. With sidebar, it looks like the read-only state is modified when the new frame is initialized, so maybe the state needs to be reset on frame deactivation?

Emacs 25.3
Helm: Latest

[sebastiencs]

I can't reproduce the issue. I don't have any issue with helm while using sidebar.el

Can you describe a bit more your use case ? Please

[tmstieff]

Let me try it with a barebones Emacs install and see if it persists. Are you only targeting Emacs 24 right now?

[sebastiencs]

Alright. Emacs >=24, I'm using emacs' master branch

[tmstieff]

It seems to be an issue with Evil mode. I have a clean Emacs installation with just sidebar (and requirements) and it was all working. Once Evil is enabled, the mini-buffer get's stuck in read-only mode. I'll have to investigate, but it probably has to do with Evil's modal editing.

[ceblan]

Same here. Looking fordward to get Evil integration. It's a pitty, for me is unusable as is. Great work anyway.