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

[Drew Adams]

> > Please don't forget there is also `desktop.el'
> > that is a superset of `savehist.el'
> 
> 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.

The two are ... different.  Neither
is a subset of the other.

And even to the extent that part of
one is included in the other, it's
not possible/simple (is it?) to use
the other to get only that subset
behavior.  E.g., you can't (?) use
desktop to only save vars.