Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist

[Murray Eisenberg]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 11.07.2007 um 06:04 schrieb Murray Eisenberg:
>
> >   (require `savehist)
>
> Shouldn't here an apostrophe (') be used?
>
> What is the GNU Emacs manual telling you about a personal initialisation 
> file under MS Windows?

The manual says ".emacs" although other docs, for Windows emacs, say 
"_emacs" will do.  So I changed the file to ".emacs" and instead of 
pointing save-hist to a file in directory .emacs, changed it to a file 
in directory .emacs.d.  So here's the relevant portion of my file ~/.emacs:

  (require 'savehist)
  (setq savehist-file "~/.emacs.d/history")
  (setq savehist-length 1000)
  (savehist-load)
  (setq savehist-mode 1)

I changed the backquote to an apostrophe; changed the directory that's 
the target of savehist-file; and as seemed to be suggested by help for 
savehist, added the line setting savehist-mode to the positive value 1.

Now how do I USE savehist?  This I cannot discern from the documentation.

(Sorry about asking such presumably elementary questions but, despite my 
some 30+ years experience with computing, nothing about emacs is clear 
or intuitive to me.)

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