Preserving command history between sessions

Preserving command history between sessions

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

I bet this is FAQ stuff and that I was a moron while searching in the
online help.

My wife asked  me if it was possible to preserve  the history (more or
less like bash does). I understand that there could be a lot of buffer
missing but I feel  she needs it since she has some  text she works on
again and again.

But how can I can do it ? I discovered how to have it in a buffer, but
not  how to  insert items  in the  list (except  by issuing  again the
commands).

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Preserving command history between sessions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 07:49:55 +0100
> From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri)
> 
> My wife asked  me if it was possible to preserve  the history (more or
> less like bash does).

What for?  I think shell-like command history is not needed in Emacs,
for the following reasons:

 . Emacs is supposed to be started whenever the user logs in, and then
   never stopped until the machine is shut down or the user logs off.

 . The desktop.el package, if you activate it in your .emacs, will
   cause each session to visit all the files that were part of the
   previous session at the point when the previous session ended.

 . The recentf.el package will add to the "File" menu-bar item the
   names of files that were visited recently, so the user could select
   them from a menu instead of typing the names.

If these features are not enough to solve whatever problems your wife
has, please describe those remaining problems.

Re: Preserving command history between sessions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.01.2005 um 07:49 schrieb Gian Uberto Lauri:

> My wife asked  me if it was possible to preserve  the history (more or
> less like bash does).

Do you mean shell history? Then it might work to create hooks, that 
save bash' shell history file under a new name and load this one, when 
shell starts again.

If you mean buffers and their state, then desktop(.el) is the answer.

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Re: Preserving command history between sessions

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

PD> If you mean buffers and their state, then desktop(.el) is the
PD> answer.

I fear  that desktop.el  doesn't save M-x  history... I bet  that's my
fault and I did something stupid preventig desktop.el to do this.

Anyway session.el solves my wife's needs.

Thank you very much everybody!

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