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I set (global-set-key (kbd "H-g") 'keyboard-quit).

When the minibuffer is open and waiting for input, and I want to quit out of it, when I hit H-g, the bell rings and I see the Quit message, but the minibuffer remains open and accepting input. C-g works as expected: closes the minibuffer.

How can I make H-g quit the minibuffer?

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    Use keyboard-escape-quit instead. – abo-abo Jan 2 '15 at 17:42
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    When in the minibuffer, C-g calls abort-recursive-edit (you can see this via C-h k C-g when in the minibuffer). That's another command you can consider. However, there are a lot of minibuffer maps (try M-x apropos minibuffer map), and I'm not sure which ones inherit from which. – Dan♦ Jan 2 '15 at 17:43
  • OK, that makes sense. Is there a way I can simply alias H-g to C-g such that H-g will do whatever C-g does in the current context? – sandinmyjoints Jan 2 '15 at 18:12
  • More details about this topic: reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/fk1kow/weekly_tipstricketc_thread/… – sandinmyjoints Mar 23 '20 at 20:31
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Thanks to #emacs, I learned that (global-set-key (kbd "H-g") (kbd "C-g")) will work for this. C-g runs whatever command it is bound to, and now H-g will run a keyboard macro that consists of C-g, so it does exactly whatever C-g would.

A slight oddity is that because H-g is now bound to a keyboard macro, after hitting it, I see the keyboard macro message "After 0 kbd macro iterations: Quit", because that's exactly what it's doing -- quitting.

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  • i was searching exactly for aliasing Ctrl-G and your solution helped.... thanks a ton, dear... – Madhavan Jul 29 '15 at 8:39
  • If this is the answer, OP, please consider accepting it. – Drew Jan 14 '19 at 3:42

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