Re: Turning on savehist-mode by default

[Spencer Baugh]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>   > savehist-mode is a useful mode which is turned on by many Emacs
>   > users. [1] 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.
>
> I suppose this functionality would not bother anyone, but would it
> cause annoying pauses sometimes?

Probably not, but to be extra sure, I suggest only turning on the
kill-emacs-hook part of savehist-mode by default, not the timer.