Re: Difficult to get out the completions window

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Nick Roberts wrote:
> Lennart Borgman writes:
>  > It is quite difficult to close the completion window once you have 
>  > entered it (with M-v for example). I suggest the following behaviour 
>  > when focus is in the completion window:
>  > 
>  > 1) On C-g close the completion window and move back to the minibuffer. 
>  > This is what happens if you type ESC ESC ESC which runs 
>  > delete-completion-window.
>  > 
>  > 2) If the completion window is closed with C-x 0 then move back to the 
>  > minibuffer.
>
> These are global bindings, I don't think that they should be locally rebound.
>   
The binding of ESC ESC ESC to delete-completion-window is local here I 
suppose. Binding C-x 0 and C-G to delete-completion-window too would not 
be to surprising in my opinion, but instead helpful.
>  > BTW nothing is said in the Emacs manual "(emacs) Completion Commands" 
>  > about how to get out of the completion window.
>
> You need to go back to the minibuffer before typing C-g, but that's the case
> for any command which prompts in the minibuffer if you switch windows, even
> without completion.
>   
Yes, but how do you do that from the keyboard? (Without using ESC ESC 
ESC which is special here, but BTW not mentioned in the manual.)