From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:08:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wmufm7r7.fsf@catern.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5476"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sbaugh@catern.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 04:08:34 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r4ueI-0001EF-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:08:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4udw-0002EM-Ql; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4udv-0002EE-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4udv-00073P-9X; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:08:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=2KE8JsCHXWzIurN4XP2wwwbUHEgOQ745Lg8uiL9Ggbk=; b=sTFjqAGPURcx EAtchZH1tCpIBUb1Q7tTElhSSYkLvV5bXhOfqtJXJtiih4Vz5tJx1JjMVmgyZ/7SJ9juRaWD+/Vsg WT2d1KQ0TedInUPJJpDO2uOul1IEYZ7/cZ8FAuhGbniHM00gTHQh3jnKw9cII5WrELMoR61ncBZyl vzrRiKubvTdpoUPoobovOiPv2GdMPWf5wsNstAhiyqb4VAIb4aB8dntQaYjJmEw+9gjiAbk8+7ZMr k0H5SnzoDDzWV50R4iM33cmo1891HkyYL96ycnq3gHNuVIcqHExRjpO2VYhYLfao2UVR0vHu939kT 3oDGaY9fj8ebaji+qWXBig==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r4udu-0008BG-MA; Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:08:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wmufm7r7.fsf@catern.com> (sbaugh@catern.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313030 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > savehist-mode is a useful mode which is turned on by many Emacs > users. [1] It matches the default behavior of programs like bash and > vim, which save command history by default. I suggest that we should > find some way to enable savehist by default. I suppose this functionality would not bother anyone, but would it cause annoying pauses sometimes? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)