From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: minibuffer already active Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:50:40 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211565157 18360 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 17:52:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:52:37 +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 19:53:15 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 1JzbS5-00035l-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 19:53:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzbRK-00082V-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzbQb-0007j6-Sx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzbQZ-0007i7-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54773 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzbQZ-0007i4-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:44197) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzbQZ-0000Fr-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.149.132]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K1C0088V28VMHF0@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 21:05:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4a7f99aa-e779-4852-a9cb-c3b28abc478c@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:54281 Archived-At: > From: "coliban@gmail.com" > Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 02:44:45 -0700 (PDT) > > 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. Do you by chance exit an active minibuffer, like, for example, when Emacs prompts for something in the minibuffer, and you click a mouse in another buffer? If so, don't do that; type C-g to abort the command that caused the prompt, before you click where you want. The same goes for when you suddenly see Emacs saying minibuffer is already active: you can click your mouse in the minibuffer, and type C-g, perhaps more than once, to abort the commands that prompted in the minibuffer and which you left hanging around.