RE: [External] : Turning on savehist-mode by default

[Drew Adams]

> savehist-mode is a useful mode which is turned on by many Emacs
> users. It matches the default behavior of programs like bash and
> vim, which save command history by default.  I suggest that we
> should find some way to enable savehist by default.

Why?  It's trivial to turn it on.  As you
say, many users (moi aussi) do so.

There are a zillion minor modes that many
users find useful to turn on by default.
It doesn't follow that `emacs -Q' should
turn on any of them by default.

`kill-emacs-hook' should definitely be nil
by default.

> what other issues have prevented savehist
> from being turned on by default

Wrong question.