How to disable auto stop insert when there is no item in lines picker

[Kaiser-Yang]

When I use lines picker to search lines in current buffer and there is no item for the input, it will back to normal mode automatically.

Is this a bug or how it works?

If this is not a bug, how to disable this feature?

[dpetka2001]

I'm using LazyVim myself and just tried with a fresh LazyVim installation and this does not happen. It stays in insert mode even when there's no item to match.

[Kaiser-Yang]

This seems a bug, I found that this may happen when I search for files sometimes. But I do not know how to make it reproduce stably.

[dpetka2001]

I can't repro this either with files picker or lines picker. Try the minimal repro.lua that is provided in this repo

vim.env.LAZY_STDPATH = ".repro"
load(vim.fn.system("curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/folke/lazy.nvim/main/bootstrap.lua"))()

require("lazy.minit").repro({
  spec = {
    { "folke/snacks.nvim", opts = { picker = {} } },
    -- add any other plugins here
  },
})

and then do nvim --clean -u repro.lua and :lua Snacks.picker.lines() and :lua Snacks.picker.files().

Screencast following with minimal repro.lua

Screencast.2025-04-29.18.56.11.mp4

[Kaiser-Yang]

I've found the reason. I have an autocmd:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('BufEnter', {
    group = 'UserDIY',
    callback = function()
        if not vim.bo.modifiable and vim.api.nvim_get_mode().mode == 'i' then
            utils.feedkeys('<esc>', 'n')
        end
    end,
})

This autocmd is to leave insert mode when in a buffer which is not modifiable, when I remove this autocmd, the problem disappears.

But I don't know why this autocmd will infect picker's input buffer.

[drowning-cat]

You can skip the autocmd if the filetype does match snacks_picker_input.

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('BufEnter', {
    group = 'UserDIY',
    callback = function()
        if vim.bo.ft == 'snacks_picker_input' then
            return
        end
        if not vim.bo.modifiable and vim.api.nvim_get_mode().mode == 'i' then
            utils.feedkeys('<esc>', 'n')
        end
    end,
})