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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages*
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:27:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87636evclf.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c1002030148j2df7b01eu92eb0729eb6cc28f@mail.gmail.com> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:48:18 +0100")

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:

> In a lot of buffers that are not associated with files, such as
> *Occur*, *Help*, etc., `q' is bound to `quit-window', `View-quit', or
> similar.
>
> Why is this not the case in *Messages*?

Cause *Messages* is not read-only, and maybe you want to insert a q
there.  But does that anybody really want?  I guess no.  So I'd be in
favor of making *Messages* read-only and bind `q' to `quit-window'
there.

Bye,
Tassilo




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03  9:48 Bind `q' to `quit-window' or similar in *Messages* Deniz Dogan
2010-02-03 10:27 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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
  -- 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
2010-02-04  3:24 Roland Winkler
2010-02-04  4:27 ` 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 23:40     ` Miles Bader

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