Re: ielm automatic saving of history -- bug 67000

[Madhu <enometh@meer.net>]

Hello,

*  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> <86v7xwtu3i.fsf@gnu.org>
Wrote on Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:06:25 +0300
>> 2. The way to opt out of this is to set ielm-history-file-name to nil in
>> user customization.  In that case this code path should be avoided
>> altogether.
>
> If you do that, comint-write-input-ring is supposed to do nothing and
> return immediately.  Does that not happen?

It still interferes with any user customization, (e.g. the
my-ielm-mode-hook in the file attached upthread)

>> The "worst" problem happens when ielm buffer exits without running
>> kill-buffer-hook
>
> How can this happen? can you show a recipe for this?

(let (kill-buffer-hook (executing-kbd-macro 'kludge) buffer-file-name kill-buffer-query-functions) (kill-buffer "*ielm*")) -- used as outlined in the quoted portion below, to opt out of saving history for "this" particular ielm session.

I agree it is outside the design-scope of the current implementation,
but it does still hurt, -- Regards, Madhu

> ( -- historically I've used this pattern to avoid
>> saving history for a particular buffer, this is the way to opt out of
>> saving the history) but in this case it runs from the kill-emacs-hook,
>> and that forces me to choose a coding system to save the buffer. There
>> is no option to opt out.