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From: "coliban@gmail.com" <coliban@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minibuffer already active
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 02:55:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a33b3b7-18c7-4e37-ad20-1d4a6df21b3d@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8563t5fj0q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz

On 23 Mai, 11:48, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> "coli...@gmail.com" <coli...@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

Thanks, David,

i had to type ESC 4 times, but it helped !

regards


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

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