From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: length of query-replace-history list Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 12:34:35 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <933ba$447dc666$49fa4f5$15189@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149100621 12795 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2006 18:37:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 31 20:36:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVYb-0000cZ-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVYZ-0003FV-LO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVYP-0003FJ-JX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVYM-0003Es-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVYM-0003Ei-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FlVeP-0008Hz-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 14:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FlVXu-0000U6-Av for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:35:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:35:54 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 20:35:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <933ba$447dc666$49fa4f5$15189@DIALUPUSA.NET> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35304 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > Is it possible to set the maximum length of this variable to 2? I want to > write the from and to strings either to an association list or to a buffer > with one dotted pair per line. Maybe this is equivalent to repeatedly > setqing it to nil. ?? ,----[ C-h v history-length RET ] | history-length is a variable defined in `C source code'. | Its value is 30 | | Documentation: | *Maximum length for history lists before truncation takes place. | A number means that length; t means infinite. Truncation takes place | just after a new element is inserted. Setting the history-length | property of a history variable overrides this default. | | You can customize this variable. | | [back] `---- So (put 'query-replace-history 'history-length 2) -- Kevin