Entering normal-state should exit compaly tooltip

[luxbock]

I tried using:

(add-hook 'evil-normal-state-entry-hook 'company-pseudo-tooltip-hide)

to achieve this, but it doesn't appear to work. It's a rather minor annoyance of mine.

[syl20bnr]

Seems that not everybody gets this behavior. I get it but if I remove my layers it disappears.
@luxbock can you confirm that you don't have this behavior with a stock spacemacs config ?

[luxbock]

Using master, if I remove all of my own configurations and leave only the auto-completion layer, then ESC does what I wish, i.e. goes to normal-state and disables the company popup, so yes I can confirm your finding.

I'm trying to investigate which setting it is that causes it, and have narrowed it down to my (eval-after-load 'evil ...) block in my dotspacemacs/config.

[luxbock]

I have identified the culprit: (setq evil-move-cursor-back nil). Perhaps it's the same for you as well?

[CestDiego]

@syl20bnr @luxbock I do exit company popup when I press (for example) nj which is my evil-escape key. BUT I'm back to insert mode. shouldn't it go to normal state? because If I wanted to modify sth in insert mode I shouldn't have to exit company tooltip, I'd just write more because for entering company popup you HAVE to be inserting text.

[TheBB]

Status on this? Seems to work as expected for me.

[mmcnl]

I can confirm that setting evil-move-cursor-back prevents exiting normal mode (either by the evil-escape sequence or C-[) from also closing the company tooltip.

(Thanks @luxbock for tracking the issue down to that setting -- I spent far too long trying unsuccessfully to add hook behavior to close the tooltip manually).

It'd be great to be able to have both the evil-move-cursor-back setting and the expected tooltip closing behavior but it's definitely not killing any kittens.

[mmcnl]

Oh, looks like using this hook instead is giving the desired behavior, even when (setq evil-move-cursor-back nil) is set:

(add-hook 'evil-normal-state-entry-hook 'company-abort)

[fintelkai]

@mmcnl Thanks for the tip (#1097 (comment)). This had been driving me bonkers.

[aldanor]

Would this be a sensible default?

Confirmed, the above hook solves it when exiting to normal mode via fd or ESC, even when evil-move-cursor-back is disabled.

[StreakyCobra]

@aldanor You can create a PR with this if you feel motivated, this would be discussed there :-)

[aldanor]

Well, I'm not sure it is a sensible default for everyone -- if it is I could try and open a PR. For me it surely is, it is natural to expect that fd or ESC actually kill the company popup; if you want to ignore the popup and stay in insert mode -- you just continue typing and it will go away on its own.

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