Re: How to automatically write *Messages" buffer to a file?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Brad Collins wrote:
> Is there is a simple way of getting Emacs to automatically append
> messages in the message buffer to a file so messages work as a log file?

This should get you most of the way there (when you exit emacs, it
should ask you whether you want to save that log file):

(with-current-buffer "*Messages*"
  (set buffer-file-name "~/*Messages*")) ; or set-visited-file-name

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Kevin Rodgers