From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:27 -0400 Message-ID: <5l605est50.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83o9jag9wg.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmf7dum9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522343468 18492 195.159.176.226 (29 Mar 2018 17:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:11:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: 30943@debbugs.gnu.org, cfindeisen@google.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 29 19:11:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b4o-0004is-R5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:11:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6s-0002Nj-G6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6k-0002N2-T4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:13:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6k-00062n-2J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:51050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6j-00062f-U0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6j-0007ba-Mf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:13:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:13:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 30943 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 30943-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B30943.152234355829200 (code B ref 30943); Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:13:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30943) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Mar 2018 17:12:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58946 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6M-0007au-7c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35843) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6J-0007ah-P4 for 30943@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6E-0005US-3E for 30943@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6C-0005SS-Dq; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f1b6B-0006C9-QA; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:12:27 -0400 X-Spook: Shelter-in-place MIT-LL afsatcom Tony Blair CIDA Body X-Ran: ) (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:49:34 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:144698 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> savehist doesn't truncate anything AFAICS. > > I meant savehist-trim-history. savehist-trim-history is a no-op on Emacs. savehist relies on the trimming of history variables that Emacs does in the course of normal operation.