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Re: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages*


From: Roland Winkler
Subject: Re: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages*
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:28 -0600

> It's set to t to avoid generating zillions of useless undo entries.
> 
> That's pretty reasonable given that 99.99% of the time, people
> _don't_ edit *Messages*, and yet it changes a lot.
> 
> It's silly to start changing *Messages* with the idea that people
> are editing it, because that's almost never the case.
 
...which brings us back to the original request: most often it is
used for viewing what is happening, so that most people probably
were happy if `q' had the same quit-window binding it has in other
buffers that are not intended for editing.




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