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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,  juri@linkov.net,
>   drew.adams@oracle.com,  philipk@posteo.net,  sbaugh@catern.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:53:46 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Is it though? I’m using ‘desktop-save-mode’, not observing
> >> preservation of histories, and not seeing any user option in the
> >> Desktop group that would shout to me “enable this to save all
> >> histories”. I see ‘file-name-history’ in ‘desktop-globals-to-save’ but
> >> I wouldn’t like to whitelist all the histories I care about.
> >
> > Why not?  I do precisely that, FWIW.  It's a one-time configuration,
> > so not a lot of effort.
> 
> I'm curious.  What desktop save option did you set for this?

I customize desktop-globals-to-save.  It has file-name-history by
default, and I add other history variables to it.

> I am currently using desktop-save *and* savehist but I could use
> just desktop-save?

I didn't study savehist too deeply, but it sounds like these
functionalities are equivalent, yes.