From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:54:40 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40004A70.8060601@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073761823 26479 80.91.224.253 (10 Jan 2004 19:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 20:10:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AfOV1-00040J-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:10:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfPRD-00029E-Aa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfPRA-00026s-Bx for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfPQb-0001tO-Ha for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AfPQM-0001qE-T0 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.59] (helo=mailbox7.ucsd.edu) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfOFq-0005MS-HW for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:54:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox7.ucsd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0AIsWEw071490 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:54:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:54:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:54:32 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 26 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073760871 10205030 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-Spamscanner: mailbox7.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Oct 30 2003 22:20:52, 1.4/5.0 2.60) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 59500 i0AIsWEw071490 mailbox7.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6525 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6525 Frederik Fouvry wrote: > When I want to open a new file and start doing so (C-x C-f), but > then recall that I already have the file opened, and switch to it > with C-x o (buffer names being shorter than full file paths), I > can type in the buffer name, but not switch to the buffer because > "Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window". I think you must mean `C-x b' instead of `C-x o'. > Is there no way Emacs can detect this condition and switch the > buffer in (one of) the main window(s)? I guess the window in > which this should happen is the window the user was in just > before switching to the mini-buffer (information which I guess is > stored anyway, since aborting the command brings us back to that > window). When you realize you don't want to complete the `C-x C-f' command, abort it with `C-g'. Then you can use `C-x b'. Or if you've set the `enable-recursive-minibuffers' option, you could do `C-x o C-x b'. -- Kevin Rodgers