From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minibuffer already active Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:08:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4836EBF0.7090209@gmail.com> References: <4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <8563t5fj0q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211559110 29860 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 16:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 18:12:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzZsM-0008OM-9J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 18:12:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzZrb-00006e-KR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:11:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzZoj-00076u-Pi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzZoh-00074F-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38877 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzZoh-00073z-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:51487) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzZob-0004tG-R3; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:08:22 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:61057 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JzZoa-0000pq-78; Fri, 23 May 2008 18:08:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <8563t5fj0q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080523-0, 2008-05-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JzZoa-0000pq-78. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JzZoa-0000pq-78 4b901778e197ec700cf40dcce31fd3ec X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54280 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "coliban@gmail.com" writes: > >> Hello Colleagues, >> >> seems that i have the ancient emacs problem : >> >> sometimes, out of the sudden, emacs is telling me that the "minibuffer >> is already active" and no further action is possible. Of course i have >> searched already the internet, and, of course i have found the answer >> that i have to kill the minibuffer with "^]", but, of course, this >> command is not working. >> >> Does anyone knows the answer, i have to exit emacs which looks very >> stupid to other colleagues, which are using Microsoft Word and so on. > > ESC ESC ESC > > should pretty much always help. Though in some circumstances you have to use META ESC ESC instead. (If you are using Viper for example.)