Re: Mini-buffer does not save completions from previous Emacs session

["Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com>]

I solved this by finding & installing the .session package. In fact I
think I may have installed .session long, long ago on Linux and
forgotten about doing so. This would explain why I was surprised not to
find the same functionality on my fresh Windows install.

Endless Story wrote:
> Nope. Emacs reports: [no match]. I'm browsing the Customization buffers
> & not finding anything. And I have the big GNU Emacs Windows, but that
> is (as usual) fairly impossible - it wasn't written with a reader in
> mind.
>
>
> David Kastrup wrote:
> > "Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > This is Emacs 21.3.1 on Windows. I am used to running it on Linux,
> > > where it has never been a problem to revisit ALT-x completions in the
> > > mini-buffer that I had used in the previous session. So not knowing
> > > what has broken, I don't know how to fix it. Clues, doco I should look
> > > at?
> >
> > M-x customize-variable RET savehist-mode RET
> >
> > and don't forget to save for future sessions.
> > 
> > -- 
> > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum