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Recursive editing is sometimes useful. Its main disadvantage is that you might not be aware that you've entered or exited a recursive edit. Please consider adding something like what this code provides: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/rec-edit.el There are really two different features there. Either could be provided on its own by Emacs. But `rec-edit.el' rolls them together in a minor mode, `rec-edit-mode'. 1. You can use the same key, `C-M-c', to enter a recursive edit as to exit. When already in a recursive edit, it exits or, if you use a prefix arg, it enters a new recursive edit. In other words, it does this: (if (or (< (recursion-depth) 1) current-prefix-arg) (recursive-edit) (exit-recursive-edit)) 2. It optionally highlights the mode-line indication, `[...]', to make clear that you're in a recursive edit, and to indicate the depth. Whether this highlighting is done is controlled by a Boolean user option. Emacs generally discourages, or doesn't encourage, initiating a recursive edit. That's understandable. But sometimes it's useful, and a major reason it's discouraged is because it's easy for users to not realize they're in a recursive edit, or not know how to exit. This minor mode aims to mitigate those downsides. And it's off by default, so presumably a user of it wants to make use of recursive editing but wants to be aware when doing that. I think something like this would be helpful for Emacs to provide. In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2019-08-29 Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17763 Configured using: `configure --without-dbus --host=3Dx86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=3D-O2 -static -g3''