Re: Outdate session.el?

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2008-03-24 13:28 +0000, Richard G Riley wrote:
> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 2008-03-24 01:00 +0000, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>>>    Session.el is sort of being replaced by savehist.el.
>>> "sort of" ? Does it replace it or not ? :)
>> For me, yes. I never need to go back to use session.el.
>
> Hi Leo,
>
> Documentation is sparse (!) - could you explain what it does that
> session does not do?

I can't make a comparison. The benefit of using savehist is that it is
included in Emacs by default and will be made to work with future Emacs
releases.

Savehist saves minibuffer history by default, you can customise
savehist-additional-variables to save other data.

> Also when I try it from here:
>
> http://www.koders.com/lisp/fidA05D3793F1722735B6D00FF7628FE22B4FF490B1.aspx?s=sort
>
> I get
>
> ,----
> | and: Symbol's value as variable is void: user-emacs-directory
> | Symbol's value as variable is void: user-emacs-directory
> `----
>
> Version: This is GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
> Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2008-03-02 on raven, modified by Debian
>
> Thanks for any pointers and/or advice.
>
> r.

That variable was introduced in Emacs 23.

savehist.el is included in Emacs by default.

Bye,
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