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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minibuffer already active
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:48:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8563t5fj0q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com

"coliban@gmail.com" <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.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-23  9:44 minibuffer already active coliban
2008-05-23  9:48 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-23  9:55   ` coliban
2008-05-23 16:08   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-23 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii

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