From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:49:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmf7dum9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o9jag9wg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522320552 21689 195.159.176.226 (29 Mar 2018 10:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 30943@debbugs.gnu.org, cfindeisen@google.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 29 12:49:08 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 1f1V7D-0005XA-KZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:49:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V9G-0002CS-Om for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V97-0002Bf-QZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V94-0004TJ-Q2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:50099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V94-0004TA-Mz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V94-0004SH-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:51:02 +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=B30943.152232060317056 (code B ref 30943); Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 30943) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Mar 2018 10:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57996 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V86-0004R1-QE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37302) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V84-0004QU-RU for 30943@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V7w-0003hs-Fx for 30943@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:49:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V7w-0003hk-CG; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2083 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f1V7u-0001pV-Gk; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:49:50 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:12:51 -0400) 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:144681 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Chris Findeisen , 30943@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:12:51 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Save-hist doesn't truncate any variables except the ones it knows > > about, because it cannot be sure that truncating some list might leave > > the variable with an invalid value. > > savehist doesn't truncate anything AFAICS. I meant savehist-trim-history. Or maybe I misunderstand what you are alluding to.