From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Default history-length should be higher Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390590673 2231 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2014 19:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:11:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 24 20:11:19 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 1W6m9u-0006Lj-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:11:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6m9t-0007Gd-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6m9j-0007Ck-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:11:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6m9c-0003gF-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6m9c-0003g4-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:11:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W6m9b-0006Bp-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:10:59 +0100 Original-Received: from 188-143-127-112.pool.digikabel.hu ([188.143.127.112]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:10:59 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 188-143-127-112.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:10:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 188.143.127.112 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:169024 Archived-At: I checked the sources and apparently history-length default is still 30. It may have been a good default 20 years ago, but in the 2010s it could be higher. savehist and other packages can save the histories and it is very useful to have access to a bunch of past history entries which are easy to browse with the various history completion packages. Wouldn't 100 be a better default for history-length?