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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minibuffer already active
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:50:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4nchpu7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>

> From: "coliban@gmail.com" <coliban@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 02:44:45 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 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.

Do you by chance exit an active minibuffer, like, for example, when
Emacs prompts for something in the minibuffer, and you click a mouse
in another buffer?  If so, don't do that; type C-g to abort the
command that caused the prompt, before you click where you want.

The same goes for when you suddenly see Emacs saying minibuffer is
already active: you can click your mouse in the minibuffer, and type
C-g, perhaps more than once, to abort the commands that prompted in
the minibuffer and which you left hanging around.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 17:50 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
2008-05-23  9:55   ` coliban
2008-05-23 16:08   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-23 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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