Re: view-lossage should be certain to show last keystrokes

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > mr> C-h e just displays the *Messages* buffer.  Usually the cursor _is_ at
 > mr> its end.  Do you want `view-echo-area-messages' to forcefully move the
 > mr> cursor to `point-max' when you "manually" moved it to another position
 > mr> before?
 >
 > All I know is after I start emacs and then do C-h e, the cursor is at
 > the  "@", not at the end,

Where is the cursor when you select *Messages* manually or do a

(switch-to-buffer "*Messages*")

at the end of your .emacs?

 >
 > Loading paren...done
 > @Loading regexp-opt...done
 > Loading ffap...done

Could you tell whether the cursor is always at the same "window" line of
*Messages* or at the same "contextual" line of *Messages* (say, always
at the line starting with

Loading regexp-opt...done

or always at the line preceding

Loading ffap...done

...)?  You could, for example, ask .emacs to display a message before
ffap gets loaded.