Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19/11/2023 08:59, Po Lu wrote:
> There is a grave disadvantage to introducing kill-emacs-hooks or saving
> files periodically from a timer.  In the case of the former, Emacs will
> behave inconsistently, subject to whether it's been killed such that the
> hook cannot run.  And the latter runs the risk of files being corrupted
> if the file is being saved, by chance, the instant Emacs is killed.

That would be a real problem if the information saved by savehist-mode 
were of grave importance.

Completion input histories are not usually in that category. People can 
repeat their inputs manually; it's just a time-saving feature.