Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Tak Kunihiro]

>> Another area is the keybinding space and the minibuffer.  Just
>> about every time I have watched a new user use Emacs, I have noticed
>> how frequently they accidentally hit some key combination or sequence
>> and wind up in some weird state that they never meant to be in -- and
>> don't know how to get out of.
>
> We made this very simple a few years ago: Just keep typing C-g.
> I guess these users don't know that.
>
> Can anyone thing of a better way to teach them about this?

How about to click somewhere in main-buffer area to get him out of the
state and say `type C-g next time'?