From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Outdate session.el? Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: <347fece5-be55-4bdd-9d70-4ba39d1004d9@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <200803190100.m2J10JZA032332@localhost.localdomain> <3A8A02EC-A886-4B90-82ED-9A77863AB1FB@Web.DE> <200803240100.m2O10BFg027234@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206379829 23083 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2008 17:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:30:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 18:30:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JdqVY-0003Uy-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:30:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdqUx-0004jx-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdqUg-0004jc-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdqUc-0004iu-Dd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdqUc-0004ik-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdqUb-0005tT-Jz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JdqUS-0005hz-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:44 +0000 Original-Received: from sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.223.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:44 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:29:44 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoAgMAAADxkFD+AAAADFBMVEUvT09qWs3/pQD///+J kUVcAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMLOd3veKQA AACuSURBVBjTldE9CgIxEAXgB+lEyFUC2wo5ikdZ8DSypxhMY7H9VuIVwlqkGRgnm59VsHGafIQ3 CZlAtmKIRaHETgYa12lqvEsPYKf8wXHsPGfqPaUM0g9aJPKFXkmNQmSDqwzz4Fpgpz+6WAPY2z5o uPJJpu0uypcl4nyCibMLQ8lCiVjayLoQvw5LsVKQuHPRR958HZbOcVsKeepcLxpByjycGvnKmY+c MBvrtyjfe0vmuLvdq/kAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 Emacs/23.0.60 (20080222) Fedora/8 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:brloWPJW1/mD07czz1/XOvoV6Rs= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52669 Archived-At: On 2008-03-24 13:28 +0000, Richard G Riley wrote: > Leo 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, -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: [ GPG Key: 9283AA3F ] :. Use the best OS -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/