Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> 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.

It is a nuisance for Emacs to display outdated completion history if it
is abruptly killed: anyone who has run multiple bash shells in parallel,
and thus played the guessing game of "which shell's history has been
preserved?" will concur.  Corruption is worse still.