Re: minibuffer already active

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "coliban@gmail.com" <coliban@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.

Though in some circumstances you have to use

   META ESC ESC

instead. (If you are using Viper for example.)