From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sometimes I get stuck in the minibuffer Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 10:11:56 +0200 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <87fszccecp.fsf@gkayaalp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31002"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bb7oBDs4xUpHeIYTTkAXCtBClac= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 10:13:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lckkM-0007yt-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 10:13:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58204 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lckkM-0000d5-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 04:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lckjM-0000cO-CJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 04:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lckjK-0006Kb-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 04:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lckjI-0006jq-OR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 10:12:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129262 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Lately I’ve been encountering this weird behaviour where out of nowhere, >> especially when switching buffers, the minibuffer will arrest focus, and >> I have to use ‘other-window’ or similar to escape. This is not when I’m >> prompted anything, the focus remains in the empty minibuffer like in any >> other buffer, and if I try ‘C-x b’, I get >> >> user error: Cannot switch buffers in minibuffer window > > This sounds like a manifestation of the same problem recently mentioned > by Thierry Volpiatto. I recommend `M-x report-emacs-bug`. I think I encountered the same issue. But it is quite random, making it difficult to reproduce. I'm using it on macOS. -- William