Re: minibuffer already active

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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.)