From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Default history-length should be higher Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:42:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7a6753c5-cac9-4e60-be73-42467784e8eb@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390635784 7658 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2014 07:43:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:43:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 25 08:43:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6xtW-0004Cd-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 08:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6xtV-0006uv-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6xtK-0006ug-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6xtA-0000bG-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:40380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6xtA-0000bB-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s0P7gjYC028713 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:42:45 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0P7giof006635 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:42:45 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0003.oracle.com (abhmp0003.oracle.com [141.146.116.9]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0P7gilW012625; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:42:44 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169042 Archived-At: > > > > Wouldn't 100 be a better default for history-length? > > > > > > No objection from me, > > > > FWIW, I use 1000. Any reason this should be as short as 100? >=20 > I use 1000 too in my personal setup and it works fine for me. >=20 > I only said 100, because I was not sure the powers that be would > not find 1000 to radical, but I agree 1000 is an even better > default. BTW, whether someone finds a history list of 1000 elements to be long or reasonable might also have to do with how they access its elements. If someone typically just cycles among elements using, say, `M-p', instead of searching (using, say, `M-r') or completing, then 1000 would generally be far too long a list - as would even 100 probably. (I tend to complete against the history list.)