From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: "Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sometimes I get stuck in the minibuffer
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:55:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe6aee4ffdaedf92e4d5@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fszccecp.fsf@gkayaalp.com>
>
> Lately I’ve been encountering this weird behaviour where out of nowhere,
> especially when switching buffers, the minibuffer will arrest focus, and
> I have to use ‘other-window’ or similar to escape. This is not when I’m
> prompted anything, the focus remains in the empty minibuffer like in any
> other buffer, and if I try ‘C-x b’, I get
>
> user error: Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window
>
> Because of this, I can’t switch buffers sometimes; when I hit C-x b,
> when the relevant prompt appears, it tries to switch buffers in the
> minibuffer window, leading to the above error. I can’t ‘keyboard-quit’
> my way out of this, because, while that does quit the prompt, I’m then
> stuck in the minibuffer window, and I need to use window selection
> commands like I said above to be able to leave. Which works fine, but
> then I can no longer use ‘switch-to-buffer’ in that frame without this
> issue repeating, so I can’t switch buffers and lose my layout.
>
Don't worry, this has nothing to with your configuration, it's because the
minibuffer is currently being "improved". "On n'arrete pas le progres !"
If you manage to create a reproductible recipe that triggers this bug,
please M-x report-emacs-bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-27 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-27 8:37 Sometimes I get stuck in the minibuffer Göktuğ Kayaalp
2021-04-27 10:55 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-27 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-01 8:11 ` William Xu
2021-05-01 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
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