Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, juri@linkov.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:24:22 -0500
> 
> A little while ago I found that my minibuffer was displaying
> 
>   Unsent message being composed, erase it? (y or n)
> 
> and I had no recollection of why.  Nor was it easy to make it go away.
> Sure, I could have done it with C-], but C-] does not come to mind
> when I see that.  I expect to answer y or n, but that doesn't work
> when the minibuffer is not selected.

Does it work to type "C-x o" one or more times to get back into the
minibuffer?  (I guess you will need to wait to the next time it
happens to check whether that solves the problem.)