Re: Fwd: Keeping up; was Another Emacs incompatibility

[Óscar Fuentes]

Francis Belliveau <f.belliveau@comcast.net> writes:

> Now let me ask a question that I have trouble with for a long time. My
> customizations turn off the menus and tool-bars because they take up
> valuable screen-space and I hate leaving the keyboard to use them.
> However, I often end up on a machine where my custom stuff does not
> exist and accidentally change the focus within emacs to a menu while
> moving focus between windows. How do I get emacs to focus back on the
> buffer so that I can go back to typing?I generally fight my way out of
> the problem, but I have yet to find a magic combination that I can
> remember to use next time

If the menu is Emacs' menu, C-g should do the trick.