Re: savehist-mode: invalid-read-syntax "#"

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jan 04 2006, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Alas, from time to time `savehist-mode' saves entries containing "#"
>> like...
>>
>>   (setq command-history '((describe-key '[(mouse-6 (#<window 14 on
>>   site-start.el> 41046 (293 . 354) 5470111 nil 41046 (48 . 27)
>>   nil (221 . 3) (6 . 13)))] 1 nil)))
>
> If non-string values can end up in this variable, then savehist
> shouldn't be trying to save it.  For me, command-history is not even
> part of savehist-minibuffer-history-variables.  

It's not present on all machines I use (newlines added in this mail):

$ grep setq.savehist-minibuffer-history-variables ~/.emacs.d/history
(setq savehist-minibuffer-history-variables
 '(gnus-group-web-search-history gnus-group-web-type-history
 bibtex-key-history reftex-cite-regexp-hist TeX-macro-history
 shell-command-history locate-history-list w3m-input-url-history
 gnus-mail-method-history LaTeX-environment-history regexp-history
 string-rectangle-history TeX-command-history Info-search-history
 compile-history set-variable-value-history query-replace-history
 buffer-name-history grep-history read-expression-history
 gnus-method-history coding-system-history iswitchb-history
 woman-topic-history gnus-group-history file-name-history
 minibuffer-history extended-command-history))

$ grep setq.savehist-minibuffer-history-variables ~/.emacs.d/history
(setq savehist-minibuffer-history-variables '(TeX-macro-history
 input-method-history set-variable-value-history
 string-rectangle-history locate-history-list woman-file-history
 command-history gnus-method-history latex-help-hist
 shell-command-history coding-system-history compile-history
 gnus-mail-method-history LaTeX-environment-history TeX-command-history
 Info-search-history woman-topic-history query-replace-history
 regexp-history grep-history buffer-name-history
 extended-command-history read-expression-history file-name-history
 iswitchb-history minibuffer-history gnus-group-history))

> Did you explicitly ask savehist to save this variable?

No, I don't have any settings for savehist-mode in my init files
beside (savehist-mode 1) to enable the mode.

Bye, Reiner.
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