just found out about SPC T Z and now I’m tripping

I suggest M-x zone-when-idle 3 😛

Incase you want to stop the madness - zone-leave-me-alone

this is what hacking looks like

yeah, totally they should've used emacs screen with zone in Westworld, instead screenshots of react source code

After a recent SM + package update, I'm getting this horribly obnoxious behavior -- when I start a helm command that pops up a separate popup buffer in the current frame (eg SPC p h), it instead opens it in a totally separate frame, ie a popup window (in the OS sense of window). Worse, the active window is often still the original window in the background, so when I start typing chars (eg a few chars of a filename to search for) it starts doing random things in the background that I don't see. Anyone else encountered this nasty little bugger? I'm struggling not to throw my laptop out the window...

Also hi y'all! 🙂

I have to actually click into the popup with the mouse to get it to respond 😱

When it happens, I get this in the terminal from which I started emacs: (emacs:19446): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_window_parse_geometry() called on a window with no visible children; the window should be set up before gtk_window_parse_geometry() is called.

Whew, found it. To prevent this, you need to

(setq helm-use-frame-when-more-than-two-windows nil)

Bit of detail at https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/39311/prevent-helm-from-opening-in-a-new-frame

Yikes—that does sound like quite the annoying default.

@eggsyntax recommended way to switch back to previous Helm behaviour (i.e. no pop-up) is to add this to the layer section in ~/.spacemacs

(helm :variables
             helm-use-frame-when-more-than-two-windows nil)