Doom-emacs: [HOWTO] Keep treemacs open when pressing `esc`

[tam5]

What I want to achieve
I'd like to keep treemacs open when I press escape (evil-force-normal-state), so that treemacs is only toggled when I explicitly toggle it via +treemacs/toggle.

Is there an easy/good way to do this?

System information

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        build      Apr 12, 2019
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        shell      /bin/bash
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config  envfile    envvar-file
        elc-files  0
        modules    (:completion (company +auto +childframe) (ivy +fuzzy) tab-complete :ui doom doom-dashboard doom-quit ophints workspaces hl-todo indent-guides modeline nav-flash treemacs (popup +all +defaults) vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe window-select better-company :editor (evil +everywhere) fold file-templates snippets multiple-cursors rotate-text :emacs dired electric vc :tools (eval +overlay) docker (lookup +docsets) editorconfig flycheck flyspell lsp magit :lang data emacs-lisp go (java +lsp) (javascript +lsp) markdown (org +attach +babel +capture +export +present +protocol) (php +lsp) python rest ruby (scala +lsp) (sh +fish) web :config (default +bindings +smartparens))
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[hlissner]

Unless you created a new popup rule for treemacs without a :quit nil property, this is already the default behavior. I cannot reproduce it otherwise.

[tam5]

@hlissner can i first of all say you are amazing for this project? We all literally spend hours and hours every day benefiting from your work here, and you responded within 3 mintues! So yeah thanks..

Anyway, you are right, with a fresh install it seems this is the behavior, so I'll have to see what I have conflicting with it.

[tam5]

On second thought, I've been able to reproduce the issue with a vanilla doom installation (with the only addition of treemacs).

Steps to reproduce:

1. treemacs toggle
2. focus back in editor buffer
3. create a split (either vertical or horizontal)
4. press escape a few times

Doing this will close treemacs, while I would expect treemacs to remain open.

I believe the issue to have something to do with the balance windows function, but I don't know for sure

[hlissner]

This should be fixed in 4fe24df. Let me know if that isn't the case and I'll reopen it. Thanks for letting me know!

[tam5]

Better, thanks!