From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Winkler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages* Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:28 -0600 Message-ID: <874olx8yz7.fsf@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265256175 14075 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 04:02:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 04 05:02:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcsvX-0003Sk-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:02:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcsvX-0007HE-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NcsKc-0001bc-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54136 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NcsKc-0001bL-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NcsKb-0000B4-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.164.197]:12731) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NcsKb-0000B0-11; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from regnitz.physics.niu.edu (p1087-ipbf213aobadori.miyagi.ocn.ne.jp [125.174.251.87]) by tfkpsv.physik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBD7215D2; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:24:35 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: 877hqtd93x.fsf@catnip.gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:02:41 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:120882 Archived-At: > 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.