I often find myself clicking on the echo area by accident. Perhaps
that has to do with the fact that when the minibuffer is active, a
click there will put the focus there. But if I'm the only one who
makes that mistake, never mind.
You're not the only one. I've said the same thing. I too am not
crazy about
the new behavior of bringing up *Messages*. In fact, I find that it
causes
me more effort in the long run (especially since I use frames),
since I then
have to close the *Messages* window/frame.
I understand why the new behavior was added, and that was
especially because
of some such "accidents", in particular, mistaken attempts to select
echo-area output. Double-clicking will not help here however, IMO. I
personally prefer the old behavior (just an error message), but on
n'arrete
pas le progres...