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On 11 Jul, 05:04, Murray Eisenberg <mur...@math.umass.edu> wrote:

> Originally, the file was named .emacs and placed inside my home
> directory.  But then I realized that savehist wants to save the history
> to a subdirectory .emacs of my home directory

That sounds like a very serious bug in savehist. .emacs is the
standard name for the init file, it should not be trying to create a
subdirectory of that name!