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How to get back to an active minibuffer prompt in emacs without the mouse

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Mar 15, 20269739 views
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In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to click inside the minibuffer, which is annoying beca…

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