From: Roland Winkler <rwinkler@niu.edu>
To: miles@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages*
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874olx8yz7.fsf@regnitz.physics.niu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877hqtd93x.fsf@catnip.gol.com
> 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.
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 3:24 Roland Winkler [this message]
2010-02-04 4:27 ` Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages* Miles Bader
2010-02-04 8:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-02-04 8:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-02-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-04 16:58 ` C-x C-q and undo [was: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages*] Drew Adams
2010-02-04 23:40 ` Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages* Miles Bader
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-04 1:28 Roland Winkler
2010-02-04 1:41 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-04 2:32 ` Miles Bader
2010-02-03 9:48 Deniz Dogan
2010-02-03 10:27 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-02-03 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-03 15:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-03 15:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-02-03 17:03 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-04 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-04 16:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-02-04 18:01 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-02-15 13:46 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-02-16 16:42 ` Davis Herring
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