From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minibuffer already active Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:48:37 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8563t5fj0q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211539333 17638 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 10:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 12:42:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzUjY-0002h0-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzUio-0007Mz-2Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 06:42:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kw1PUpfTs3hqswbXllGAym0+KtM= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 May 2008 11:48:37 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fce54db7.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=c20Jic==]BZ:afN4Fo<]lROoRA<`=YMgDjhgBO5MOK`; S:bhJLFC`[QH5d\nL9F`m74j0IaM Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158907 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54272 Archived-At: "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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum