Subject: Re: bug#7967: 23.2.93; keybindings should be echoed in *Message* buffer

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 00:15:14 +0100

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Roland Winkler <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Execute any command foo with a keybinding in its "long form" M-x foo.
> Emacs issues the message
>
>  You can run the command `foo' with ...
>
> The default is to display this message for two seconds.
> Then the message is gone for ever.  I'd appreciate if this
> messsage was echoed also in the *Message* buffer.

I think it is a good suggestion.

However while it can help newbies it might also disturb old users so
it is probably best to make it default and have an option to turn it
off.