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RE: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:48:13 -0700 |
> The manual says ".emacs" although other docs, for Windows emacs, say
> "_emacs" will do.
Yes, _emacs also works, at least on MS Windows. I use _emacs, for Emacs 20,
21, and 22 - it works fine.
> So I changed the file to ".emacs" and instead of
> pointing save-hist to a file in directory .emacs,
.emacs is not a directory; it is an initialization file. If you use _emacs,
then you don't also need .emacs; they serve the same purpose: init file.
I don't explicitly point `savehist-file' anywhere; I use the default value,
which is ~/.emacs-history. You can use any file you want.
> changed it to a file in directory .emacs.d.
That should be OK.
> 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)
IIUC, savehist-load and savehist-mode do the same thing. savehist-mode
replaces savehist-load, which is now obsolete. If your version of
savehist.el defines savehist-mode, then you should not need to use
savehist-load.
Second, you should turn on the mode by using the mode function (command),
`savehist-mode', not by setting the mode variable, `savehist-mode'.
Third, AFAIK, savehist-length is also obsolete, unless you use XEmacs.
FYI, I do (only) this, in my _emacs:
(require 'savehist)
(savehist-mode 1)
Actually, I use savehist-20+.el instead of savehist.el, since it works with
any version of Emacs (20, 21, 22). If that interests you, you can get it
here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/savehist-20%2b.el. So, what I
really do is this:
(require 'savehist-20+)
(savehist-mode 1)
> I changed the backquote to an apostrophe; changed the directory that's
> the target of savehist-file;
`savehist-file' should point to a file, not a directory. It is the file
where your minibuffer histories will be saved.
> and as seemed to be suggested by help for
> savehist, added the line setting savehist-mode to the positive value 1.
No, that last part is wrong, I believe. Call the mode function instead.
> Now how do I USE savehist? This I cannot discern from the documentation.
If you have things set up right, then you do nothing (beyond the `require'
and turning on `savehist-mode'). When you exit Emacs, it writes your
minibuffer histories to the file that is the value of `savehist-file'. When
you start Emacs up again, it reads the saved histories, so you can
immediately use them when Emacs reads minibuffer input.
HTH.
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Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist, Murray Eisenberg, 2007/07/12
Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist, David Kastrup, 2007/07/12