Misleading visual indicator in HELM

[jsab]

Description

The cursor and the bottom left state indicator color implies that we are in normal mode but it is not the case.

Reproduction guide

• Start Emacs
• SPC b b

Alternative reproduction steps:

• SPC f f, SPC f r, SPC p f, SPC p p, etc.

Observed behaviour:
The bottom left state indicator is orange and so is the cursor. This indicates that we are in normal mode.

Expected behaviour:
In vim style the bottom left indicator should be green with the appropriate cursor.
In hybrid style the bottom left indicator should be blue with the appropriate cursor.

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.1.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.9
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8e1af14)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: hybrid
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(better-defaults
 (spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-auto-dictionary t)
 syntax-checking version-control
 (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-return-key-behavior nil auto-completion-tab-key-behavior 'complete auto-completion-complete-with-key-sequence nil auto-completion-complete-with-key-sequence-delay 0.1 auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t auto-completion-private-snippets-directory "~/.spacemacs.d/snippets")
 semantic
 (git :variables git-link-default-branch "master" git-commit-summary-max-length 50 git-commit-fill-column 72 magit-display-buffer-function #'magit-display-buffer-fullframe-status-v1 magit-branch-read-upstream-first nil)
 github
 (org :variables org-directory "~/org" org-agenda-span 14 org-agenda-dim-blocked-tasks 'invisible org-agenda-files "~/org/agendafiles" org-agenda-text-search-extra-files
      '(agenda-archives)
      org-habit-graph-column 55 org-startup-indented t org-log-into-drawer t org-log-reschedule 'note org-log-redeadline 'note org-time-clocksum-format
      '(:hours "%d" :require-hours t :minutes ":%02d" :require-minutes t)
      org-todo-keywords
      '((sequence "TODO(t)" "|" "DONE(d!)" "CANCELED(c@)"))
      org-enforce-todo-dependencies t org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil org-refile-use-outline-path 'file org-refile-targets
      '((nil :maxlevel . 9)
        (org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 9))
      org-export-publishing-directory "~/Downloads/" org-odt-preferred-output-format "docx" org-latex-to-mathml-convert-command "latexmlmath \"%i\" --presentationmathml=%o")
 (mu4e :variables mu4e-installation-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/mu4e/" mu4e-msg2pdf "/opt/bin/msg2pdf" mu4e-html2text-command "w3m -dump -cols 80 -T text/html" mu4e-view-show-addresses t mu4e-maildir "~/Maildir" mu4e-sent-folder "/sent" mu4e-drafts-folder "/drafts" mu4e-trash-folder "/trash" mu4e-attachment-dir "~/Downloads" mu4e-get-mail-command "mbsync -Va" mu4e-update-interval 120 mu4e-hide-index-messages t mu4e-change-filenames-when-moving t mu4e-compose-dont-reply-to-self t message-sendmail-f-is-evil 't message-sendmail-extra-arguments
       '("--read-envelope-from")
       message-insert-formatted-citation-line 'message-cite-original sendmail-program "msmtp" message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
 (latex :variables latex-build-command "LaTeX" latex-enable-folding t)
 restclient xkcd finance sql ess
 (clojure :variables cljr-favor-prefix-notation nil clojure--sym-forbidden-rest-chars "][\";'@\\^`~(){}\\, 	\n
/")
 (html :variables web-mode-markup-indent-offset 2)
 markdown emacs-lisp
 (c-c++ :variables c-default-style "linux" c-basic-offset 3)
 common-lisp csharp javascript python yaml plantuml shell-scripts
 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom shell-default-shell 'ansi-term))

• System configuration features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES

[syl20bnr]

I looked into the code of spaceline and I'm not sure how we can handle this, pinging @TheBB :-D

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