Re: Use .emacs.d in savehist.el

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Any objection to the patch below?
>
>> Ideally I was aiming to have both emacsen share their minibuffer
>> histories, but I'm not sure if that's realistic.
>
> Yes, that's the only objection I could imagine myself.  I'm not sure
> what to think of it.  OT1H it makes sense to try and share the
> history, but OTOH there's a pretty clear risk that it won't work
> right.

It should work correctly -- the only thing that could not work are the
differences in coding systems.

> For the few users who actively use both Emacs and XEmacs and who
> care about sharing their histories, I'd say: customize the
> savehist-file variable.

Agreed.  That's exactly what the code I proposed does.