From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: minibuffer entry up in smoke upon three ESC's Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:15:53 -0700 Message-ID: <35koqbF4nai1sU1@individual.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106587988 4910 80.91.229.6 (24 Jan 2005 17:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 24 18:33:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ct85F-0007m1-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:33:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ct8HS-0003VA-F0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ct89E-0001QU-Vz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:37:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ct88w-0001GC-LK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:36:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ct88u-0001Ea-Sc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:36:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.59] (helo=mailbox7.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ct7oo-0000TR-8k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (mail.fu-berlin.de [130.133.1.2]) by mailbox7.ucsd.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0OHFvAG040476 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:15:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1Ct7oj-000ITj-5w>; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:15:57 +0100 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:15:57 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net HV78Tzrz43oQ2bF6zm8Q7Q+mcHM4D3az7d8uto+lmYCiN6zN0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Spamscanner: mailbox7.ucsd.edu (v1.5 Dec 3 2004 17:34:44, -0.1/5.0 3.0.0) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 32916 j0OHFvAG040476 mailbox7.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10557 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Gentlemen, minibuffer text entry goes up in smoke upon three ESC's: > ESC x c o m p i l e RET v e r y _ i m p o r t a i n t _ > painfully_entered_long_line ESC ESC ESC > If I wanted to throw it all away, I would have hit ^G. The three ESC's > were just a typo. That is user error, not a program bug. ,----[ C-h k ESC ESC ESC ] | ESC ESC ESC runs the command keyboard-escape-quit | which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'. | (keyboard-escape-quit) | | Exit the current "mode" (in a generalized sense of the word). | This command can exit an interactive command such as `query-replace', | can clear out a prefix argument or a region, | can get out of the minibuffer or other recursive edit, | cancel the use of the current buffer (for special-purpose buffers), | or go back to just one window (by deleting all but the selected window). `---- -- Kevin Rodgers