I’ll be pretty brief today. keyboard-quit (C-g) is one of the most used commands, but unfortunately it’s not very smart. Most annoyingly, it doesn’t work as expected when the minibuffer is active. Fortunately, fixing such problems (and then some) is trivial in Emacs: (defun er-keyboard-quit () "Smater version of the built-in `keyboard-quit'. The generic `keyboard-quit' does not do the expected thing when the minibuffer is open. Whereas we want it to close the minibuffer, even without ex...| Emacs Redux
April is no joke the cruelest month. They should probably keep mercury in retrograde in April. Break the mirrors! Walk under ladder! Find some black cats and talk them into walking in front of you. There’s no way you could make April more difficult.|